Red Hat Summit 2016 Day 1

The first day of the Summit proper. I am glad I registered yesterday - there are long queues of desperate people waiting for their tags as the keynote is about to kick off,

Red Hat Summit 2016 Day 0

The first day is a bit of a wash for me agenda-wise: it's POWER TRAINING day, and since I'm not POWER TRAINING, that doesn't leave me a

The Plantagenets

The Plantagenets title perfectly describes its scope: an narrative history of the Plantagenet dynasty from its inception to its end, divided into one chapter per ruler. It's a hefty, well-written, and

H is for Hawk

To describe H is for Hawk as a memoir of the period when Helen Macdonald had to come to terms with the death of her father sells it short. It is many other

The Guest Cat

An affecting novel with a simple form and story: a tale told in the first person of a man and his wife who come to love a cat, only to lose it. A