Save Our Forests

Still time to sign this petition to stop the government privatising national forests.

Celebrity endorsements ...

According to an interview he did with the New York Times, Mick Jagger has my book on his Kindle ... Martha Nussbaum has also made some nice comments.

My first ever animated module guide ...

The Page 99 Test

Marshal Zeringue of the "Page 99 Test" blog recently set me an interesting challenge:

'I wonder if you might be interested in helping with a blog post that would tell readers more about Churchill's Empire [...]

The "test" is simple: Is Ford Madox Ford's statement "Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you," accurate for your book?'

Here is what I wrote.

I also got this mention in the correspondence columns of the New Yorker.

Weekend Edition

Here is my interview on NPR, broadcast last Saturday.

A further review, from the Washington Times.

Another review, this time from the Christian Science Monitor. I have also recorded an interview with NPR's Weekend Edition, which with luck will be going out this Saturday.