Non-fiction / Science and Nature
I teetered on the edge of giving this a four instead of a three but it’s not quite there. Still a fascinating book and you won’t look at an octopus the same afterwards. The author takes us on an exploration under the sea to explore the private lives of the octopus (and to some extent cuttlefish and squid). From their bizarre behaviour of hand-holding to lightbulb stealing we…
(more…)Thriller / Sci-fi
Fishermen disappear, tourists on the beaches are attacked, and whales start ramming cargo ships, overtaken by a strange “madness”. But why? We are greeted to two main characters. One, a whale specialist, works for a whale watching company in Alaska, and the other, a Norwegian scientist and marine expert. As the attacks and disappearances increase in number and severity the paths of these two characters…
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