Down the years, our seasonal solstices have brought out the imagination in a number of creative artists, and American poet Robert Frost was no exception, with the recently passed winter solstice that which brought his pen to paper… ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy...
Much like Geoffrey Chaucer, who introduced around 2000 words to the English Language, William Shakespeare was responsible for coining many common phrases that we still use to this day. Whilst some of these phrases are a testament to Shakespeare’s incredible linguistic...
Like the X-ray machine, the humble post-it note, and even the pacemaker, penicillin goes down in history as one of the most life-changing ‘accidental discoveries’ ever made. Alexander Fleming himself remembered it similarly: One sometimes finds, what one is not...
Ten More Books… The Other People, C.J. Tudor If you’re a fan of books that go ‘bump in the night’ then C.J. Tudor’s latest offering is sure to satisfy. Gabe’s wife and daughter, Izzy, were murdered in their home, but Gabe remains convinced that Izzy is alive. In...
The dawn of 2020 marked not just a new year, but a new decade – and with a new decade comes the opportunity to read more books! With most of us now spending more time indoors, what better time to settle down with a good book and escape from the news for a few hours?...
