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Alice!

On October 21, 2018 By Andrew G LockhartIn Books, Science fiction and fantasy, Women in HistoryLeave a comment

A look back at the life of a famous child - I haven't done any blogging for a week or two because I've been on holiday, first in the New Forest, then in Belgium and the Netherlands. Wherever I go, I can't help looking for literary connections. A few years ago, at Winchester, it was …

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Dust and Daemons

On October 27, 2017 By Andrew G LockhartIn Book Review, Science fiction and fantasy, young adult fiction5 Comments

La Belle Sauvage (Volume One of The Book of Dust) by Philip Pullman Readers of  His Dark Materials will recall that the story resolved satisfactorily at the end of The Amber Spyglass. It may not have been the ending many readers wanted, but there was a certain logic to it, one that left open the …

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It's all in the DNA!

On February 24, 2014 By Andrew G LockhartIn Book Review, Books, Life and the Universe, Science2 Comments

The Seven Daughters of Eve Bryan Sykes's book is one that bears reading a second and even a third time. It is the story of mitochondrial DNA. I first read it shortly after its publication in 2001. Science has moved on. There has been much new research and while scientists do not always agree on …

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