Susak Press

Jul 13, 2023 | hastingsindependentpress.co.uk | Susak Press |Tim Barton |Tim Devlin

Cracking Humpty Dumpty By Tim Devlin Published by Susak Press, rrp £12.99, available at Bookbuster Review by Tim Barton Of ‘Ring a Ring o’ Roses’, Tim Devlin, in his lovely intriguing new book offering ‘an investi-gative trail of favourite nursery rhymes’, quotes nursery rhyme commentator Chris Roberts: “Of all the nursery rhymes this is the one that most people think they ‘know’ the origins of.” Tim is here to roundly disabuse us of such notions and, as with Richard Dawkins’ Unweaving the...