A Few Good Books
On our blog, we talk about our favourite books and authors, old and new, books that stayed with us long after we were done reading, the ones we might gently press into the hands of other readers.
Book Recommendation: This is for Everyone
Tim Berners-Lee is the inventor of the World Wide Web. This is a memoir in which he shares the story of his remarkable life and gives a fascinating account of how the world wide web came to be. Unlike so much of what makes up the internet today, the web was not invented in or by a tech company. It was created by a physicist working at CERN who began by wanting to create an information sharing system for the people working within the organisation...
Book Recommendation: Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets
Tom Fort is a writer, and an angler who aspires to be handy. In 2018, his daughter-in-law, Sharona, took over their local hardware shop, a century old place called Heath and Watkins. While she, as the handy-woman of the family, was the driving force behind it, the rest of the family got involved in some capacity, and the author got to be a part of the day to day working of a village hardware shop...