The Island House by Mary Considine [Read aloud to Adelle] We picked up this book during our recent holiday in Cornwall, wanting to know more about what life in the county is like. This book chronicles the life of a London couple who want to drop out of city life. They get an agreement from […]
Neil Hopcroft
A digital misfit
non-fiction
Book review: Ignition by John Drury Clark
[Audiobook] Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by John Drury Clark While the author describes this as an informal history and claims to write for a general audience, I found this was stretching my, admittedly somewhat rusty, O-level chemistry knowledge – his idea of the level of education of ordinary people may show […]
Book review: Skunkworks by Ben R Rich
[Audiobook] Skunkworks by Ben R Rich I chose this book because I wanted to learn more about the Skunkworks, the secretive Lockheed R&D works based in Burbank. Ben Rich became the leader of the Skunkworks after Kelly Johnsons retirement – this book recounts stories of his time there. The character of the place changed with […]
Book review: Climate Change, how we can get to carbon zero
[Read to self] Climate Change, how we can get to carbon zero, by Bianca Nogrady This was a book I picked up at the Eden Project in the knowledge that I was going to finish Neverwhere while we were in Cornwall. This is a bit of a weird book, on one level it is a […]