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Bryan Appleyard

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Sunday Times writer, author. Interviewer of the Year, BPA, 2014. Three times Feature Writer of the Year. CBE 2019.
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Does a propensity for crime depend on one’s DNA?

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By Bryan Appleyard 
| The Spectator Australia
This book begins strangely. Kathryn Paige Harden and her man Travis go off into the Texas desert to take some LSD in the hope that it will provide a ‘hard serotonergic reboot’. They have not so far had sex, but Travis has plans. ‘You’ll come back with your third eye,’ he says, ‘and then we’ll fuck. You’ll be glad we waited.’ At this point you may be tempted to hurl the book across the room. The self-centredness is oppressive. But persist. It rapidly becomes a very powerful read.
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Humanity's undying quest for immortality

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By Bryan Appleyard 
| Engelsberg Ideas
James Bedford was a psychology professor at the University of California. He died aged 73 in 1967. Well, perhaps he didn’t. He left $100,000 in his will to cover the costs of having his body ‘cryopreserved’ – frozen down to 196 degrees and stored in a liquid nitrogen tank –in the hope that he would, one day, be thawed and returned to life. It has not yet happened. In fact, in the 59 years since, nobody who has been subjected to cryopreservation has been raised from the dead.
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The strange decline of London

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By Bryan Appleyard 
| Engelsberg Ideas
London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth, Patrick Radden Keefe, Picador, £22. This book is a thriller combined with a harsh and accurate account of the decline of London under the reign of money. Patrick Radden Keefe is a meticulous researcher and an adept storyteller. Above all, he sees the strangeness of things. Nothing could be more strange than an incident at 2:23am on a November morning in 2019.
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