Michael O'Mara

But evolution is not a process of increasing complexity, nor any other measure of superiority you can find.

curse.
‘All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way’

Don’t make the same mistake twice. Make it six or seven times just to be sure.

Watership Down (1972)

none of us is an island and we all live out our lives surrounded by other humans.

Our genus Homo contains just one species at the moment, and that’s us

People and Society, but this is naturally because novels are inhabited by characters with human personalities

The Second World War brought devastation and horrific suffering for millions of people. But like all wars, it acted as a catalyst for rapid technological advancement

Garden pests and diseases can be a minefield. Attitudes to their control have transformed over the past few decades and while this isn’t by any means a book on organic gardening, such practices are now mainstream and no longer dismissed as the province of beardy types who look as though they don’t wash very often.

This book takes you through the gardening year

A red sunset sky is usually caused by reflections from minuscule dust particles trapped high in the atmosphere by conditions that occur before fine weather.