Informed by personal insights from Robin as well as interviews with some of the world’s top comedians, neuroscientists and psychologists, this is a hilarious and often moving primer to the mind. Thrust Bibliomaniac at him and force him to read until he's smiling and interested in the world again. In this audiobook, you can hear the excitement in Ince's voice as he talks about bagging eccentric volumes ranging from Pan sci-fi novels to bon vivre diaries to the latest literary darlings. And lots of asides about books, if you want book recommendations well there are more than you could imagine.

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I was the only black girl making white girl money,” she boasts, telling a vibrant story about sex and struggle in a bygone era. Nonetheless, the book appealed to me in rather a similar way to those books like Horror Movies - it took me back to my youth when I used to really like working through titles that were probably more strictly reference books (I've even been known to read a Pevsner end to end). I did get lots of ideas of books to read – Robin Ince loves science-fiction, which I don’t read a lot of, and biographies, some of which I feel like reading now. It won't appeal to everyone, not even everyone interested in books (especially if you restrict yourself to Literature with a capital L). Not that he neglects to describe his surroundings, even when he talks in the corner of a market when the book selling area is not so well defined.

Really, it cures many domestic ills and doesn't nag at you to read from start to finish in a one-er. The nature of the booksellers also shone through, eager to welcome someone who could attract others to the delights of books. I think Robin is incredible and apart from someone like Ken Campbell, I have never seen anyone do what he does in his live shows" said Carl Cooper, producer of the show. How to Build a Universe is an illuminating and inspirational celebration of science – sometimes silly, sometimes astounding and very occasionally facetious.

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The list of Dickensian villains is fine enough, but no Silas Wegg or Grandfather Smallweed or John Jasper? Marjorie Taylor Greene, and adviser Rudy Giuliani, recounting how Giuliani groped her backstage during Trump’s Jan. Beneath the bemusement and occasionally explosive irritation, there is a very kindly book here, about unlikely friendships and little epiphanies. Covering billions of concepts and conundrums, they tackle everything from the Big Bang to parallel universes, fierce creatures to extraterrestrial life, brain science to artificial intelligence. The comments are also a bit on the short side, so you wouldn't discover many random and wonderful new reading ideas from this.Though her work was far from the Broadway shows she dreamed about, it eventually became all about the nightly hustle to simply survive. That distance brings a dizzying freedom - your sexuality, politics, piercings: so many possibilities. Featuring stories by Mitch Benn, Katy Brand, Neil Edmond, Richard Herring, Charlie Higson, Matthew Holness, Rufus Hound, Robin Ince, Phill Jupitus, Tim Key, Stewart Lee, Michael Legge, Al Murray, Sara Pascoe, Reece Shearsmith and Danielle Ward. It’s about the great British-Mexican surrealist painter and author Leonora Carrington, and was written by her son, Gabriel Weisz Carrington.

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Ince also relates the book collector’s fear of missing or neglecting to acquire the special book, and the regrets that ensue when he later realises that he rejected a real gem. He is best known for presenting the BBC radio show The Infinite Monkey Cage with physicist Brian Cox. In Autumn 2021, Robin Ince’s stadium tour with Professor Brian Cox was postponed due to the pandemic. I don’t need a hobby because I absolutely love hanging around with book people, hanging around with scientists, wandering around and creating silly ideas. The opening chapters channel a kind of Dungeons and Dragons feel as a parade of Smaugs, Draculas, the Spindleman, Cryptids and Suited Gentlemen pass through.Each chapter, prefaced with a sketched map that roughly shows a particular leg of his journey, is essentially a collection of anecdotes and observations told with thoughtfulness, humour, and enthusiasm.