Benjamin Wardhaugh: Gunpowder and Geometry [2019] hardback ZFCRI bringing together science

bringing together science

the land of the cunning and cruel Lannisters

'Trevor is a master of both language and storytelling' Hilary Mantel

First broadcast as a series of specially commissioned stories on BBC Radio 4

only one man still presumed Elinor was innocent until proven guilty: Hercule Poirot was all that stood between Elinor and the gallows

Benjamin Wardhaugh: Gunpowder and Geometry [2019] hardback ZFCRI bringing together scienceAugust, 1755. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne. In the fields, men and women are getting the harvest in. Sunlight, or rain. Scudding clouds and backbreaking labour. Three hundred feet underground, young Charles Hutton is at the coalface. Cramped, dust choked, wielding a five pound pick by candlelight. Eighteen years old, he's been down the pits on and off for more than a decade, and now it looks like a life sentence. No unusual story, although