Benjamin Wardhaugh: Gunpowder and Geometry [2019] hardback ZFCRI Twenty-five years after the iconic

Twenty-five years after the iconic

a retiree who has become addicted to the shopping channel

bringing together science

Yet what mystifies Poirot most is the woman's true motive for approaching him

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

Benjamin Wardhaugh: Gunpowder and Geometry [2019] hardback ZFCRI Twenty-five years after the iconicAugust, 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