Notes on reading
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Armchair travel with James Bond
Family summer holidays in my childhood were always spent in seaside bed-and-breakfasts or rented rooms. We never stayed in hotels and we certainly never went abroad. Hotel were too expensive and ‘abroad’ was impossibly exotic. Continue reading
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The curious case of the misleading blurb
As far as I know, no-one has ever had a complaint about a book blurb upheld by the Advertising Standards Authority. Continue reading
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Wessex, Mercia, and the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect
In a speech given in 2002, Michael Crichton, of Jurassic Park fame, coined the term, ‘Gell-Mann Amnesia effect’. Continue reading
About Me

Writer. Londoner. Wayfarer on the rolling English road.
the other place

I write about British places and history at theseislands.blog.