Books

The Girl On The Train storyline could easily be seen as a “Rear Window” type, but instead of the recuperating neighbour, the main character is a commuter watching from a train window. Rachel is the eponymous girl on the train. She is an alcoholic and after having a heavy night drinking, she finds herself at her…

Cosmology, the scientific study of the origin, evolution and fate of our Universe, has undergone a revolution in the past century, Much of this revolution has centred upon what we know as the Big Bang theory, which asserts that the cosmos was created in a stupendously energetic explosion at a finite time in the past….

First published in 1940, the eminent Russian cosmologist George Gamow’s character has been a favourite of many. Mr Tompkins is a bank clerk, whose imaginations are created by Gamow to enable the reader to experience the world of physics and relativity first hand. Where else could you understand what a world would be like if…

It is annoying when articles and books about things to look at in the sky give only ‘RA/Dec’ coordinates for finding each object, and glossy, colourful pictures made with time exposures. Many amateurs have smallish telescopes or only binoculars, and aren’t able to rigidly fix their instruments or accurately set the mounting. We need to…