A changing world is changing Orkney. One direction may bring new opportunities with energy or food production, and a climate of renewal. Another direction may lead to a kind of theme park, shaped by mass tourism and social media...
Category - Reviews
The Ness of Brodgar: As it Stands
It was a spring ploughing that did it, in Ola and Arnie Tait’s field at Brodgar in 2003. The plough caught on something, and up came a massive stone, long and rectangular.An initial trench revealed the corner of a building, with...
Treacle is Medicine
Seriously, treacle used to be seen as a medicine, in particular as a salve or antidote for poisons...
Ghostwalk – a novel of ideas
Lydia Brooke, a writer and the book’s central character, is returning to Cambridge from her...
Music to reach to the stars
Sir William Rowan Hamilton was one of the greatest thinkers the world has seen. He created elegant...
Kitchener and the Hampshire
A new book on the sinking of HMS Hampshire a hundred years ago has been published. Julie Anya...
Roads to the future: can sci-fi predict them?
Nothing is written. The future is ours to shape. When you take the cities, spare the scientists and...
Well, there you are
Howie Firth reviews Auntie Robbo, by Ann Scott-Moncrieff Everyone should have an Auntie Robbo...
Quantum theory: the glory and the shame
I’m one of those people who go into bookshops and buys books that I know I would love to read but...
Scouring the globe’s empty spaces
Barrow’s Boys by Fergus Fleming I was given this book as a Christmas present by a friend who knows...