The eagle eyed amongst the massive readership of this blog (you know who you are...thanks mum!) will have spotted a new feature on the left hand side-bar thingy.

'What I'm currently reading' will feature a hyperlink to, well, what I'm currently reading.

At the moment it is Jared Diamond's 'Collapse' - a tremendous run through thousands of years of human history which charts the rise and fall of human societies as far afield as GreenLand and Easter Island.

'Collapse' is a brilliant follow on from Diamond's 'Guns, Germs and Steel' - which explored the environmental and geographical factors behind the pre-eminet rise of western 'civilization'.

So that's this week's Richard and Judy/Oprah style recommendation - Collapse by Jared Diamond!