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One of the handful of wines that can lay claim to being the greatest wine of the 20th Century.

I've just watched a mini-series on PBS America about the Holocaust. There were some stories that I hadn't heard before - particularly those relating to resistance/escapes in/from various camps. I'd like to learn more about that particular aspect - anyone got any recommendations? TIA...

Book 1: Leviathan Wakes - Hugo nominated; that's a good start! The setting looks like it might be my type of thing...I haven't read the plot, obviously. I'll give it a go. Thanks...

Looking for recommendations please - hard sci-fi/hard space opera and, I guess separately, credible time travel. Not fantasy. Good: Asimov Arthur C Clarke Alastair Reynolds Bad: Dune - wtf?

Shrunk and Other Stories - Oliver Black. Written by the self-proclaimed "London's leading hypochondriac", a series of short autobiographical stories. He's a Prof of Philosophy and a Prof of Law, so smart as a whip, with a dry, acerbic wit which has me guffawing, while simultaneously cringing...

I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but I think you'll find that with Karenin and Vronsky already in play poor Anna doesn't have the bandwidth to add another lover. Good luck though.

...as well as Von Braun (the "father of Rocket Science" and the inventor of the Saturn V rocket) and Hermann Goring... A truly remarkable man.

The Human Stain - Philip Roth