Four score and more: Review of “Mortal Coil” by David Boyd Haycock
In contast to David Adam, this is a book whose place in my mental library has diminished rather than increased in the years since – to the extent I had forgot…
Category: tls
No off-switch – review of “The Man Who Couldn’t Stop” by David Adam. TLS 16 July 2014
Although this is explicitly not a self-help book, perhaps the highest praise I can give is that I regularly recommend this in clinical practice and have had very positive feedback…
Filter It. Reviews of “Take Me To The Source” by Rupert Wright and “The Blue Death” by Robert D Morris, TLS, 17/10/08
I previously posted my submitted text of this reviews but, thanks again to Maren Meinhardt, I am herein re-posting the actual published text. FILTER IT Rupert Wright TAKE ME TO…
Review of Mad Dogs and Englishmen, Neil Pemberton and Michael Worboys, TLS, 12/12/08
I had a fruitful correspondence with Neil Pemberton after this was published on urban noise in the Victorian era, which was supposed to link into my magnum opus on the…
Atlas Maior of 1665 / Philip’s Universal Atlas of the World. TLS 10th February 2006
Originally published in the TLS – original link available only to subscribers. With thanks to Maren Meinhardt for supplying me with the printed text. This is one of those pieces…
Séamus Sweeney 