Bookend – Where reading meets review

(Image Credit: goodreads.com) Fecundity in thought and fastidiousness in deed, are not attributes one associates with a man who has accidentally plunged headlong…

Ann Cleeves is back with another offering forming part of the Two Rivers series and she manages to pull off a riveting thriller…

(Image Credit: http://www.amazon.com) The only text by Anaximander (c. 610 – c. 546 BCE) that has been privy to us reads: “All things…

(Image Credit: Penguin Books) Lewis Mumford, in his seminal book on the invention of clocks – Technics and Civilization– concluded that the clock…

(Image Credit: http://www.amazon.com) In the early and middle half of the 20th Century, Paris found itself in the grip of a unique ferment.…

(Image Credit: Penguin Random House) In 1967, J.A. Baker, an unpretentious individual from Essex, who left school at the age of sixteen to…

(Image Credit: The Sydney National Herald) Yemi Kale held the lofty designation of Statistician General of The National Bureau of Statistics in Nigeria…

In the year 2006, a company boasting the imaginative name of “Magnequench” shut down its plant at Valparaiso to begin operations anew, 2703…

(Image Credit: http://www.goodreads.com) They were a crack team, the visionary, and the artist. While one conceived what seemed like ideas straight up the…

(Image Credit: Infinitebooks.org) John McPhee turned 92 last March. He also finished penning his 32nd book soon after. A prolific writer of nonfiction,…