The internet and AbeBooks has taken a lot of the fun out of shopping so I was pleased to come across Hurlingham Books near Putney Bridge on Monday. It is a browsers’ paradise, stacked high with a marvellous miscellany of everything under the sun.
It took God six days to create the heavens and Earth. Max Hastings writes about thirteen days in 1962 when Mankind tried to destroy a good part of His work.