From gripping fiction to thought-provoking non-fiction, here are the books that captivated me most in 2024.
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Category: Books
The dozen fiction and non-fiction books that I’ve most enjoyed reading in 2023.
I’ve enjoyed reading a variety of fiction and non-fiction books during 2022. Here are my favourites.
The Top 5 And Away… by Bob Mortimer As was the case in 2020, my favourite book of the year was an autobiography; this time…
So that, then, was 2020. Good riddance. One might imagine that the enforced downtime offered by the pandemic lockdowns would have afforded me the opportunity…
Near the end of 2018, I stumbled upon a thread of tweets by First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon in which she shared some of…
Sometimes, when you join a new team as a .NET developer, the team lead proudly points you in the direction of a Word document or…
When I mentioned Edward R. Tufte’s excellent The Visual Display of Quantitative Information in a recent blog post, it prompted me to search North Yorkshire’s…
Fifty-three years since Darrell Huff published the seminal How to Lie with Statistics, and still we have newspapers as august as The Times pulling the…
I succumbed to temptation and bought another book at the MSDN briefing yesterday, pausing only out of concern that the guy who mans the Computer…