| Some politics books I've read or re-read this year: Fall Out - Tim Shipman, on of his astonishingly detailed quartet on Britain's exit from the EU; Robert Blake's biography of Disraeli, magisterial yet readable; Boris Johnson's memoir Unleashed, great fun if you like his tone; Colonialism, a Moral Reckoning, Nigel Biggar, an antidote to the more ahistorical versions of the BLM narrative. The Notebook - A history of thinking on paper, Roland Allen - a joyful romp through the notebook's history; Elusive - How Peter Higgs solved the mystery of Mass, Frank Close - a nice account of the discovery of the Higgs Boson, with perhaps too much biography of Higgs, who after all as a lecturer at Edinburgh was not a thrill-seeker. Carlo Rovelli's White Holes, implausible but beautifully written. |