Medium – Book About the Book – Amanda Hope Haley discusses some of the most held pre-conceptions about stories and elements in the Bible and how they have come about. She deals firstly with the tradition that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute (she wasn’t – classic misogynist Pope move), then works through Creation and Evolution,Continue reading “2021 Book #32 – Mary Magdalene Never Wore Blue Eyeshadow”
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2021 Book #28 – Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What we Leave Behind
Medium – Book About the Book – Professor Dame Sue Black is a forensic anthropologist, based at the University of Lancaster, who has spent her working life as a forensic anthropologist working in universities and alongside governments and police forces across the UK and the world. In this book, she talks through the skeleton, fromContinue reading “2021 Book #28 – Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What we Leave Behind”
2021 Book #20 – Forensics
Medium – Audiobook About the Book – Crime Writer Val McDermid investigates the use of forensics in the solving of crime, looking at various areas of forensic enquiry, such as forensic psychology, forensic accounting and digital investigation, pathology and forensic anthropology, alongside many others. She interviews mainly British/Irish experts from across those disciplines, discussing theContinue reading “2021 Book #20 – Forensics”
TBR Pile #8 – The Road to Little Dribbling
Medium – Book About the Book – The Road to Little Dribbling picks up twenty years or so after the writing of ‘Notes from a Small Island’. In it, Bill Bryson makes the journey from South of the British Isles to the North, stopping at a number of different cities and landmarks on the way.Continue reading “TBR Pile #8 – The Road to Little Dribbling”
Book #37 – Invisible Women
Prompt – A book by or about a woman in STEM Medium – Book About the Book – Caroline Criado Perez discusses the nature of data bias in our male-focused world – by looking at up-to-date statistics and case studies, she investigates the data gap which exists because of the lack of communication and testingContinue reading “Book #37 – Invisible Women”
Book #30 – We are Displaced
Prompt – A book by an author in their 20s. Medium – Audiobook About the book – This book tells the stories of refugee girls from around the world who have fled from different types of situations in their home countries, and their lives now as they come to terms with their displaced statuses andContinue reading “Book #30 – We are Displaced”
Book #26 – Agent Jack
Prompt – The First book you touch on a shelf with your eyes closed. Medium – Book About the Book – The true story of a MI5 agent who worked with Fifth Columnists during WW2, Robert Hutton tells the story of Eric Roberts, code-named Agent Jack. Roberts operated within England during the Second World War,Continue reading “Book #26 – Agent Jack”
Book #9 – The Good Girl’s Guide to Being a D*ck
Prompt – A book about, or involving, social media. Medium – Book About the book – Alex Reinwarth discovered, quite by accident, that her friend was taking advantage of her and making her life a misery. At the end of her tether, she told this friend to f*** off, and made her life a wholeContinue reading “Book #9 – The Good Girl’s Guide to Being a D*ck”
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