Two reviews that might interest Byronists;
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/05/the-volcano-that-rewrote-history.html — on a new book on the eruption of Tambora in 1815 [and its effect on that Geneva Summer of 1816]
http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1405325.ece
Review of Andrew McConnell Stott
THE VAMPYRE FAMILY
Passion, envy and the curse of Byron
464pp. Canongate. £25.
978 1 84767 871 3
Geoffrey Bond
LORD BYRON’S BEST FRIENDS
From bulldogs to Boatswain and beyond
120pp. Nick Hugh McCann. £25.
978 0 9516891 1 8