
Bonnie and Clyde: Radioactive
Clark Hays and Kathleen McFall
Book
THE REVENGE OF BONNIE AND CLYDE Saving the future by exploding the past It's January 1945, six...
thriller Bonnie & Clyde Bonnie and Clyde adult fiction
Henry M. Jackson: A Life in Politics
Book
Henry M. Jackson ranks as one of the great legislators in American history. With a Congressional...

Waiting for Contact: The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Book
Imagine a network of extraterrestrials in radio contact with each other across the universe,...

Metro 2033 Wars
Games and Entertainment
App
This game is about Adventure. It’s not only a game, it’s a book, it’s a trip! More than 500...

The Final Day
Book
A major release in the New York Times bestselling One Second After series, set in an alternate...
Science fiction

Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist
Book
The definitive biography of Henry Kissinger, based on unprecedented access to his private papers ...
History politics
The story centres around Adrian Thorby and the events that happen to him over the week of the Cuban missile crisis. His age is never mentioned, but I'd put it at around 13. The tension between America and Russia is affecting Hull in 1962, but those aren't the only things that worry Adrian that week.
Generally, when starting a book I read as little of the blurb as possible, so I was a little shocked when, on the second page, there's the line:
<blockquote>"He felt his willy twitching..."</blockquote>
Don't get me wrong, it's realistic, but I hadn't been expecting it! There was more on this subject throughout the book, and at times it was somewhat awkward, but this was probably proportionate to the embarrassment Adrian was feeling!
McBurnie created really realistic relationships between the characters, whether Adrian's family or friends. I loved the sibling rivalry, and could really relate to the sense of panic Adrian's friend Tim and he felt when they 'lost' his brother's book.
It took me a little while to get into this, but once I did, I enjoyed it. It's a creeper! McBurnie captures the little things really well - fears about the nuclear threat, and family niggles, for example. I also thought that, once it got going, the story managed to evoke the history it was representing. The casual acceptance of caning in school helped with a lot of this, haha!

The End of Epidemics: The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It
Jonathan D. Quick and Bronwyn Fryer
Book
A leading doctor offers answers on the one of the most urgent questions of our time: How do we...
medicine

The Joy of Insight
Book
In the 1930s, Victor Weisskopf worked with leading European physicists such as Niels Bohr, Werner...

The Jesus Man
Book
It is 2037. Radicals in the Middle East have done the unthinkable. Low-yield nuclear weapons have...