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Friday, August 15, 2025

Iain M. Banks - Inversions

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Inversions is one of Iain M. Banks' novels that I read multiple times after it came out, but haven't read in... well as long as thi...

Iain Banks - Canal Dreams

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Somewhere in my head I had an idea that Iain Banks' novel Canal Dreams was written for a bet. Someone suggested an utterly implausible p...
Saturday, August 09, 2025

Susan Crawford - Charleston: Race, water & the coming storm

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One of the immediate, and most expected, impacts of climate change is a rising sea level. Nasa says that "since the satellite record o...
Wednesday, August 06, 2025

James Ellroy - Perfida

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James Ellroy is perhaps best known for his two works Black Dahlia and LA Confidential . I recently read, and enjoyed, his American Tabloid ...
Tuesday, August 05, 2025

David Grann - The Wager: A tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder

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In May 1741 The Wager, a 28 gun Royal Navy ship on a voyage to harass Spanish treasure ships off the western coast of South America, ran agr...
Sunday, August 03, 2025

Kai Bird & Martin J Sherwin - American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

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Like many others I bought American Prometheus after watching the 2023 film Oppenheimer . By any judgement, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the subje...
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Karin Wieland - Dietrich & Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin & a century in two lives

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Marlene Dietrich was one of the great artists, actors and performers of the early twentieth century. Her life was shaped by the twists and t...
Thursday, July 24, 2025

Alfred Bester - The Demolished Man

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Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man is considered one of the great works of post-war Science Fiction. First published in 1953 it is easy...