FiveBooks Newsletter 80

Links to all our original FiveBooks interviews of the week before, plus a
pick of the best content on The Browser.
[1]FiveBooks weekly newsletter: Links to all our original FiveBooks
interviews of the week before, plus a pick of the best content on The
Browser.
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com

FiveBooks at The Browser

This week, for the holiday season, we've been running compilation interviews
on some of our favourite subject areas. As usual, each interview discusses
five books of recommended reading but this time each book is introduced by a
different interviewee.

Compiling these pieces has been fun and we really like the result. We hope
you do too.

Best wishes for 2012, and remember that if there are any subjects you'd like
to see tackled in a FiveBooks interview, you can drop us a line at
[5]feedback@thebrowser.com. We'll do our best to oblige.
Links:
5. feedback@thebrowser.com

FiveBooks News

[6]Best of FiveBooks on Children’s books for Christmas
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/children-best-fivebooks

Friday December 23

In the first of seven compilation interviews, we feature five children’s
books recommended by a range of experts – including Santa himself
[7]Continue reading…
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/children-best-fivebooks

[8]Best of FiveBooks on Memoirs
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/memoirs-best-fivebooks

Monday December 26

In the next installment of our compilation series, five writers recommend
essential reading in that most introspective and untrustworthy of genres –
the memoir [9]Continue reading…
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/memoirs-best-fivebooks

[10]Best of FiveBooks on Science
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/science-best-fivebooks

Tuesday December 27

We select five science books from our archives to aid your new year’s
reading resolutions – from the cosmos to those who discovered its secrets,
the wonders of evolution to its freak occurrences [11]Continue reading…
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/science-best-fivebooks

[12]Best of FiveBooks on Philosophy
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/philosophy-best-fivebooks

Wednesday December 28

Puzzled by Plato? Depressed by Nietzsche? Wondering what it all means,
anyway? We pick five philosophy books from our archive to help you tackle
the big questions of morality, suffering and meaning in time for the new
year [13]Continue reading…
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/philosophy-best-fivebooks

[14]Best of FiveBooks on History
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/history-best-fivebooks

Thursday December 29

Our end-of-year run collecting gems from the archives continues with history
books – from when Anabaptists got violent to the story of Cromwell’s
decapitated head [15]Continue reading…
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/history-best-fivebooks

[16]Best of FiveBooks on Travel
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/travel-best-fivebooks

Friday December 30

From rafting down the Nile to the first voyage to the Antarctic, we select
five travel books from our archive that will give you the wanderlust for
2012 [17]Continue reading…
Links:
17. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/travel-best-fivebooks

[18]PG Wodehouse, The Writing-Machine With A Tragic Twist
Links:
18. http://b.rw/sOFPEV

A. N. Wilson | TLS | 29 December 2011

Review of new anthology of Wodehouse's private correspondence sheds light on
character, life of the literary genius. "It is not often that a collection
of letters has a plot, but this volume has a real, and gripping story"
[19]More like this
Links:
19. http://thebrowser.com/best