I suppose technically it’s an estuary, the Humber Estuary. Have you heard of it? For millennia it has been a trading superhighway.
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Category Archives: Book Reviews
Floating
As I’ve mentioned before, I love trains; I also love boats. And the sea in general.Continue reading “Floating”
Review: ‘Emperor Wu Zhao and Her Pantheon of Devis, Divinities, and Dynastic Mothers’ by N. Harry Rothschild
Published by: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 16th June 2015
ISBN: 9780231169387
Price: 40.00
Currency: USD
Edition: Hardcover
A selection of new books from Llewellyn, reviewed
On this lovely day, I should like to share three reviews with you dear readers. As usual I got the ARC’s from http://www.netgalley.com; it’s a good place for amateur reviewers to get books early, but you don’t get to keep them; they expire 55 days after being downloaded, and sometimes I have to download them again.
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You don’t find my Dr Marten’s attractive? Really? How sad, never mind, I think I’ll survive your disapproval.
Review: ‘The Martian’ by Andy Weir
Published by: Ebury Press (Fiction)
Pub Date: 13th February 2014
ISBN: 9780091956134
Price: 9.99
Currency: GBP
Edition: Hardcover
Review: ‘Soul, Self and Society’ by Edward L. Rubin
ISBN: 9780199348657
Price: 29.95 (USD)
Edition: Hardcover
Published by: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 13th March 2015
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Moveable Feast
No, I’m not referring to packed lunches; I’m talking about Easter. Why, when Christmas is on a fixed date, is Easter not?
Review: The New Prophets of Capital by Nicole Aschoff
ISBN: 9781781688106
Price: 16.95 (USD)
Edition: Paperback
Published by: Verso Books (US)
Publication date: 10th March 2015
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Review: Circle of Eight by Jane Meredith
ISBN: 9780738742151
Price: 17.99 (USD)
Edition: Paperback
Published by: Llewellyn Worldwide
Publication date: 8th April 2015






