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Rating: It begins like a thriller. ‘When the storm came in it was unexpected and Thomas Myers was dropped to his knees. The air darkened in the distance. There was a roar and everything went white against him. It had a kind of violence he wasn’t prepared for. He wrapped his arms around his head and lay flat on the ice to keep from being hurled away.’ We are in the Antarctic, 300 miles away from any kind of civilisation. Three men have come to work at Station K for Geographic Information Services: Robert, who is an old hand, and Luke and Thomas, who are novice research scientists. The s...

The writer is an author. IN addition to the 25 or so regnal titles affixed already to the name of Queen Elizabeth II, another doleful one can now be attached: ‘The Widow of Windsor’. This was last applied to Queen Victoria (the Queen’s great-great-grandmother), after the death of her husband Prince Albert in December 1861. Like Prince Philip, Albert passed away at Windsor Castle. Unlike Philip, though, Albert as husband of a Queen regnant craved the title of Prince Consort. Prince Albert (a minor German princeling) desired a degree of equivalence with his younger wife, the Queen. In Pri...

New analysis shows the USA, Israel and Malta are top contenders for the holiday ‘green list’ 19 April 2021 • 1:57pm Malta is likely to be on the ‘green list’ for safe travel this summer Credit: Getty The USA, Malta, Israel, Iceland, Gibraltar and Ireland are likely to be on the ‘green list’ for safe travel this summer, according to new modelling. The analysis, carried out by Robert Boyle – former strategy chief of British Airways and its owner IAG – confirms that, according to the Government's “risk” criteria, only eight destinations will make the cut when the green lis...

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. From the Inside Flap: A VICTORIAN CELEBRATION PARLOR CATS As with the Queen, so with the Empire: when Victoria revealed a love for cats, her people elevated their tabby mousers to a position unrivaled since ancient Egypt. Celebrating that great era of ailurophilia are Cynthia Hart and John Grossman, the arbiters of Victoriana whose books include A Victorian Scrapbook, Joy to the World, and Forget-Me-Nots, as well as the best-selling Victoriana Calendar. Peeking out from lushly layered collages, here are endearing Victorian cats drawn...

Reviews: Icarus Peel's Acid Reign, The Sweet, Kraut Rock, Fleur de Lys, 70s Classic Rock, Global Village Trucking Company, Duke Reid by Dave Thompson Shallow Oceans (CD/LP) (Billywitch Records) Mr Peel, of Honeypot and Crystal Jacqueline fame, has been absent from these pages for a while now - indeed, it’s more than two years since his Acid Reign alter-ego last strutted its raucous stuff. But Shallow Oceans makes up for lost time with one of the finest guitar rock albums of recent memory… and that’s Guitar with a capital aaaaarrrrggghhhh, and Rock with the headful of concrete that Peel...