Shark attack: Gavin Maxwell's Harpoon at a Venture
Best known for his conservation classic Ring of Bright Water, Maxwell wrote an earlier account of shark-hunting in the Hebrides which is brutal and fascinatingThe first time Gavin Maxwell saw a basking...
View ArticleOn Silbury Hill review Adam Thorpe's odd paean to a Wiltshire chalk mound
The perennially underrated novelist is hard to follow in this earnest fusion of nature, archaeology and memoirThis is a beautiful book. I don't mean the text; we'll come back to that. I mean the book...
View ArticleH is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald review
On training a falcon the ruffian of the sky and the life problems it can solveThe arcane world of falconry is infamous for a snobbery that dates back to the medieval period, when different raptors were...
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The owl who liked sitting on Caesar by Martin Windrow | Book Review |...
A gentle and moving memoir by a man who shared his seventh-floor London flat with an unlikely companion; a tawny owl Unless you are Harry Potter, you probably don't live with an owl in your house. But...
View ArticleNew Books Party: books received this week | @GrrlScientist
Lots of fabulous books to tell you about this week! These fascinating new titles will certainly keep me busy reading for the next few weeks!Below the jump, I mention the books that I received recently....
View ArticleThrive: The Power of Evidence-Based Psychological Therapies review 'a punchy...
Richard Layard and David M Clark's polemic about mental illness is a revelation but they're a little too sure they have all the answers"I once broke my leg in 10 places. As I was taken to hospital,...
View ArticleA book for the beach: The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
For the reluctant but curious holidaymaker, this combination of science and scintillating prose provides fascinating insights into the mysteries of the tidesSunbathing bores me, I'm too old to build...
View ArticleCat Sense by John Bradshaw review what is your cat thinking?
A thoughtful, useful and utterly absorbing study of how cats perceive the worldI do hope we are agreed on the superiority of cats to dogs. As Fat Freddy from The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers once...
View ArticleHelen Macdonald: 'I ran to the hawk because I was broken and grieving'
The writer and naturalist talks to Patrick Barkham about grief, hunting, and breaking into the earnest, masculine world of nature writingThere are bees and butterflies but the midsummer skies above...
View ArticleH is for Hawk review Helen Macdonald's taming of a goshawk called Mabel reads...
Helen Macdonald's lyrical account of how she coped with the death of her father by training a goshawk is captivatingAs Helen Macdonald notes, animal books rarely end happily: Henry Williamson's Tarka...
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Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik | book review | @GrrlScientist
This book uses chemistry, history, psychology and good old fashioned storytelling to explore the nature of the materials that compose ordinary stuff, prompting readers to view the most common objects...
View ArticleGuardian first book award 2014 longlist spans Super Furry Animals and science
Gruff Rhys's odyssey and a neurosurgeon's study of brain surgery are among 11 'compelling, illuminating' debuts in contentionSuper Furry Animals singer Gruff Rhys's travelogue American Interior is one...
View ArticleInvisible: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen review a compendium of clever...
Why are we so seduced by the idea of invisibility? Philip Ball's investigation is both original and thought-provokingInvisible: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen by Philip Ball is the kind of book I...
View ArticleRiveted review the science of why we find things compelling
Jim Davies's exploration of the psychology behind our passions and interests is full of attractive ideasJim Davies doesn't think much of newspapers. "I worry that news has none of the characteristics...
View ArticleDo you hear voices? You are not alone | Ben Alderson-Day
Auditory verbal hallucinations or hearing voices is not restricted to people who have a form of psychosis. For many, the voices provide support and guidance or have a spiritual aspectHearing voices:...
View ArticleSex education book featuring bondage shelved after outcry from US parents
Your Health Today removed from classrooms in Fremont, with anatomical drawings and passages on 'erotic touch' slammed as 'borderline pornography' at school board meetingA sex education book has been...
View ArticleNew Books Party: books received this week | @GrrlScientist
What good is a weekend without a good book to read? Take a look at these books -- hot off the presses -- that you may enjoy!When I get new books, I like to share them with people. Unfortunately, since...
View ArticleThe amazing world of flyingfish by Steve NG Howell | review | @GrrlScientist
Written by a professional pelagic birding tour guide and photographer, this book presents a popular account of what is known about the enigmatic flyingfishes, and its illustrated with an abundance of...
View ArticleTalking to ourselves: the science of the little voice in your head | Peter...
If we want to understand whats happening in the brain when people hear voices, we first need to understand what happens during ordinary inner speechHearing voices: whats your experience when reading?...
View ArticleTalking to the voices in our heads | Sam Wilkinson and Felicity Deamer
A promising approach to treating people who hear voices, also known as auditory hallucinations, is to get the patient or therapist to interact with the speaker Somebody hears a voice, but nobody is...
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