Posts By Jan Kershaw
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1.3KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Missing in Action, by Marianne van Velzen
A moving and fascinating account of the gruesome post-WWI search for some of the 45,000 Australians who had died in France and...
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1.4KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Mrs Moreau’s Warbler, by Stephen Moss
British naturalist, author and award-winning television presenter, Stephen Moss, goes on a fascinating journey through the many influences on the English language...
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Â Shapeshifters, by Gavin Francis
A profound look into the way our bodies change, from puberty, pregnancy and gender dysphoria to anorexia and even death, using both...
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1.5KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: A Zero Waste Life in Thirty Days, by Anita Vandyke
The book is designed to be a guide, a workbook for the reader to use over a month. It offers tips and...
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1.9KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Â The Oz-Wonderland Series, by Ron Glick
An adventure over 5 books, providing a mashup of Frank Baum’s Oz books, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the...
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1.3KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind, by Barbara Lipska
This is a moving true account of the incredible journey through mental illness and back by neuroscientist Barbara Lipska when she discovered...
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2.6KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: My First Little People, Big Dreams: Frida Kahlo, by Isabel Sánchez Vegara
In this board book edition for ages 4 or 5, the Little People, Big Dreams series looks at the life of Mexican...
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4.0KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: My First Little People, Big Dreams: Coco Chanel, by Isabel Sánchez Vegara
A board book version for young children of the Little People, Big Dreams series about inspirational women. This edition focuses on the...
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1.9KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Civilisations: First Contact / The Cult of Progress, by David Olusoga
Based on the BBC television series, Civilisations, historian, television presenter and author David Olusoga presents a look at the two-way interaction of...
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1.5KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Civilisations: How Do We Look? / The Eye of Faith, by Mary Beard
Based on the BBC television series, Civilisations, professor of classics at Cambridge University, Mary Beard, presents a look at art and history,...
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Â Natural Causes, by Barbara Ehrenreich
Award-winning author, social commentator, and political activist, Barbara Ehrenreich, investigates how ‘wellness’ has replaced ‘health’ (ie not being sick), persuading us that...
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4.1KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: I Can Get Paid for That? by Jo Stewart
A look at 99 unusual career possibilities from being a taxidermist or airplane repossession agent through to a court sketch artist, greeting...
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2.2KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Little People, Big Dreams: Ada Lovelace, by Isabel Sánchez Vegara
Author Isabel Sánchez Vegara continues her series of illustrated children’s books that focus on women who had shown courage and strength, and...
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1.9KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Sounds Appealing, by David Crystal
Debate over correct pronunciation has existed for centuries but, as English becomes more and more of a global language of communication, the...
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1.4KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Not Yet, Zebra, by Lou Kuenzler
Annie, who is making paintings of animals representing the entire alphabet, asks them to all line up in order and starts with...
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1.7KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Little People, Big Dreams: Ella Fitzgerald, by Isabel Sánchez Vegara
One in a series of illustrated children's books about inspirational women. In this edition, the highs and lows of Ella Fitzgerald's life...
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1.3KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Munmun, by Jesse Andrews
The size of people in the 'Lifeanddeathworld', written as one word, is dependent on how much money they have. To move from...
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1.1KArtsCabaret Festival Review: Songs For Those Who’ve Come Across The Seas
This world premiere production is fabulous and so, so relevant in today’s uncertain world. Satomi Ohnishi plays drums while Quincy Grant, Gareth...
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1.2KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock, by Imogen Hermes Gowar
One September evening in 1785, the merchant Jonah Hancock hears urgent knocking on his front door. One of his captains is waiting...
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1.3KArtsCabaret Festival Review: The Girl who Jumped off the Hollywood Sign
Written and performed by Joanne Hartstone this cabaret show is fabulous – it’s entertaining, moving, amusing, has some great songs but more...
