2019: Listening Highlights (with free playlists!!)
I really wasn’t sure how to choose this because there are various options. Spotify and the like will tell you what you listened to the most over the year, which is all well and good. Those who know me can hazard a guess: lots of U2, Schubert, Shostakovich, Britten, regular forays over to the worlds […]
2019: Reading Highlights
These are in no particular order and I’ve picked them out as the ones I gave 5* to on my Goodreads page – you can see the rest here. The observant may well be able to discern themes and current obsessions… Fiction Highlights The Porcupine by Julian Barnes – an intriguing short novel about trying […]
Q Marks the Spot 134 (December 2019)
Sacred Treasure One man mission – a fascinating story about reviving Welsh chapels – and fascinating it gets such a high profile on the BBC James Hannam has written one of my favourite books of history (God’s Philosophers: How the Mediaeval World Laid the Foundations for Modern Science) So he’s recently written a great intro […]
