Bloomsbury

Book Reviews

• Clearing the Air (Tim Smedley)
  The Beginning and the End of Air Pollution
• Fire and Ice (Natalie Starkey)
  The Volcanoes of the Solar System
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (J.K. Rowling)
  - a fine children's fantasy, but somewhat over-hyped
• *The Lagoon (Armand Marie Leroi)
  How Aristotle Invented Science
• Mastery in Primary Mathematics (Tom Garry)
  - a mastery approach to teaching mathematics teaching
• *Poor Things (Alasdair Gray)
  - a socialist neo-Gothic novel
• Re:Cyclists (Michael Hutchinson)
  200 Years on Two Wheels
• Soldiers of Salamis (Javier Cercas)
  - villains and heroes of the Spanish Civil War
• The Sykaos Papers (E.P. Thompson)
  - an alien is studied by military anthropology