These twenty essays have been written over the last decade. They cover a mix of subjects across the arts, politics, science and history, everything from a theory of the mind to vice and disease in the Victorian age to the assassination of a Russian spy, with Tintin thrown in for good measure. The eclectic nature of these essays means that they are not easy to categorise, hence they appear in no particular order.
This collection runs to approx. 34,000 words and also contains a number of diagrams and photographs.