Tom Sheen

A fascinating and digestible review of current thinking about the workings (and myriad failings) of the human brain. I was particularly pleased that the author didn't necessarily take one interpretation of the data as gospel, rather presenting a few theories where it made sense to do so. After all, data mean nothing without interpretation.

Although historical fiction isn't a genre I've any experience of prior to reading this book, I can certainly see the appeal. This represents a clearly well-researched but nevertheless fun and breezy tale set in the modern day, where spirits of the long-dead roam the titular Tower, watching the living with interest and amusement. I very much enjoyed the way the ghosts were front and centre in the plot, and that just because you've passed beyond the mortal veil doesn't mean you can't still develop as a person.
With mortal peril not an option, the tension in the story is instead wisely focused on what may be the slowest moving romance in history, and the figurative (and sadly not literal) haunting of protagonist Richard III by the princes who died whilst under his protection.
This is a book well worth a read, and worth praise in particular for its understatedly perfect ending (which I shall not spoil further).