LEIGH FORBES: Books of all Sorts

20th November 2018
by Leigh Forbes
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Homemade Takeaways

by Rob Allison. From-scratch recipes! Cooking, as I do, for three children with sensory-processing issues (they struggle with both the taste and texture of food), the range of dishes they can all cope with is very small. That said, they … Continue reading

5th October 2018
by Leigh Forbes
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Histories of Nations: How Their Identities Were Forged

by Peter Furtado. A “History of the Political Revisionist Histories of Nations” would be a more accurate title for this book, which comprises a selection of essays, written by natives of each country, on some (necessarily limited) aspect of their … Continue reading

18th September 2018
by Leigh Forbes
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Nathaniel’s Nutmeg: How One Man’s Courage Changed the Course of History

by Giles Milton. Nathaniel’s Nutmeg is essentially a history of the East India Company’s early years – including the lengthy prelude to its inception – and its part in the spice race. The first half of the seventeenth century saw the … Continue reading

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13th February 2018
by Leigh Forbes
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Blind Descent

by James M. Tubor. James M. Tubor chronicles the search for the world’s deepest cave, as lead by two teams – one American (in Mexico), one Ukrainian (in Georgia) – between 1991 to 2009. He describes the characters involved, and the … Continue reading