In Extremis, The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum Marie Colvin is best remembered as the fearless reporter for the London-based newspaper, The Sunday Times, who wore an eye patch and sent back stories from the most dangerous places on the planet. She was known as a hard-drinking, hard-living journalist who strove […]
Billy Connolly, Tall Tales and Wee Stories by Billy Connolly Billy Connolly was born on 24th November, 1942. His career path has taken him from the shipyards of Glasgow, where he worked as a welder, to life as a folk musician and then onto the stage as a stand-up comedian. He also did a stint […]
Outgrowing God by Richard Dawkins God is a desperately complex fella. He presides over a number of religions but takes different approaches to each. He even takes on different appearances. In Christianity, he’s a white man with a long flowing white beard, even though that faith was founded in the Middle East. In India, he […]
Irish Ghosts & Hauntings by Michael Scott Ireland is a land haunted by many ghosts. Sometimes sadness seeps from the streams, and despair from the soil. A nation that has known one million deaths due to the effects of starvation in a short time will have stories to tell. But the tales that are shared […]
Willie Nelson, My Life by Willie Nelson (2015) Willie Nelson was born on 29th April, 1933, and grew up just outside the small village of Abbott, in Hill County, Texas. His ancestral lineage has First Nations blood mixed with white settler form the Ozarks mountain range. Both his father, Ira, and his mother, Myrle, had […]
The Last by Hanna Jameson American and historian, Jon Keller, is attending a conference in Switzerland when the anticipated Apocalypse takes places. It’s nuclear war that gets us in the end. Most of the guests at L’Hotel Sixiéme flee in search of flights and trains home. But Jon finds himself stuck there with twenty others, […]
Bloody Genius by John Sandford (2019) Virgil Flowers is a detective with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension like no other. He grows his blonde hair kinda long and wears jeans and rock band t-shirts. He likes to fish and rarely carries a firearm preferring a shotgun when he has to use a weapon as […]
