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Another riveting walk through legal cases from Geoffrey Robertson QC, selectively illustrating how to be a barrister is to play the game of justice. Endlessly entertaining and painstakingly erudite (as you’d hope, for someone in his role), he contrasts the cases he’s been called into, illustrates the machinery of justice (for example the Privy Council,…
Biopic story of the genre-defying 90s art/comedy movement known as Cluub Zarathustra, following its live beginnings and journey through TV Land and beyond. Fun to come to love a gaggle of disparate comics in the 2010s and then learn years later that most of them were a gaggle of misfits in this, led by the…
To coincide with the release of the LOOOOOOONG awaited Tap sequel this was the inevitable “What Happened Was…” book to sell to all the 40-something hangers-on like me, keen to get a peek behind the curtain. Told in a pretty honest way, this found its way into my heart entirely because of the stories and…
The story of Kenny Everett wasn’t an overly happy one, which I expect is probably pretty well-known to people who grew up in the UK at the time. As a pre-teen Australian growing up in the 80s and benefiting from Ken’s huge popularity and a failure of the cultural custodians to understand what they were…
Maths anecdotes & trivia assembled in an engaging way by a great communicator – this took a LOT longer to get to reading than I’d hoped but it references earlier chapters throughout which really helps with the recall & comprehension side of things. The invention of 0, the people counting in base-12, cultures who are…
I’d watch Lou Sanders read a shopping list. The woman’s wonderful. This book’s a kind of disorganised foray into the world of autobiography, through the medium of short story: a bit weird in pace, but it allows her to get out the kernels of the ideas she wants to get across without contriving too much,…
Massive figure in the backroom comedy firmament Joel Morris dissects the frog, but in a way where there’s plenty of laughs, LOADS of nods to the comedy industry, and generally provides what amounts to a very simple distillation of a very complex and nuanced topic… the equivalent of describing the playing of music as “just…
Robin Ince’s passionate outpouring about the many and wondrous ways in which science excites and unlocks creativity & wonder. I love Robin & his work dearly, however I can categorically state that he’s a difficult author for a new parent to read – I’ve been chopping away at this since March, and by the end…
Geoffrey Robertson here dissecting the matter of the Elgin Marbles – their ownership, the truths and myths surrounding the British Museum’s claim on them, and a wider exploration of the matter of cultural properties appropriated by other countries through a variety of means. Setting out the case that it’s possible to work out where these…
(Subtitle: “How Russians, the Rich and the Government Try to Prevent Free Speech and How to Stop Them”) This may well have been my first Audiobook, bought partially for cost reasons but also as it was read by the author. It was an illustrated description of the sorts of legal techniques that malfeasants use to…