Benjamin Wardhaugh: Gunpowder and Geometry [2019] hardback ZFCRI a retiree who has become

a retiree who has become addicted to the shopping channel

only one man still presumed Elinor was innocent until proven guilty: Hercule Poirot was all that stood between Elinor and the gallows

Penn faces an impossible choice: does a man of honour choose his father or justice

Rovelli is a wonderfully humane

Benjamin Wardhaugh: Gunpowder and Geometry [2019] hardback ZFCRI a retiree who has becomeAugust, 1755. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne. In the fields, men and women are getting the harvest in. Sunlight, or rain. Scudding clouds and backbreaking labour. Three hundred feet underground, young Charles Hutton is at the coalface. Cramped, dust choked, wielding a five pound pick by candlelight. Eighteen years old, he's been down the pits on and off for more than a decade, and now it looks like a life sentence. No unusual story, although