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Anti-capitalist protesters like to rage at the practices of Starbucks. The US coffee chain that seemingly pops up everywhere, drowning out i...

Few individuals can have had as full a life as Leon Trotsky. A radical from a young age, a Marxist organiser who was sent to prison in his ...

Iron Sunrise starts with a remarkable act of terrorism - a sun is artificially made to go supernova and billions of people die. However the ...

I fear that this wonderful comic novel is on it's way to becoming a forgotten classic. I desperately hope it doesn't perhaps this re...

John Hoffecker's book is an extrememly scholarly look at one of the oldest questions of archaeology - just how and when did humankind sp...

There’s a point near the beginning of this novel where the father and son ‘heros’ find an old destroyed soft drinks machine in the rubble of...

Watching the Australian cricket team destroy the pathetic English equivalent over the last few months has been a joy for those of us who su...

About three quarters of the way through this comic book introduction to the perils and issues around Climate Change, Kate Evans’ main charac...

The final part of the Larry Niven’s Ringworld SF series is a brilliant return to form. Millions of readers like me thrilled at Niven’s orig...

True Grit, is one of those films that everyone can quote at least one line from. I particularly remember John Wayne (that ardent anti-commu...

There are many places on earth, some of them tourist shrines, some of them deserted, covered by the sands of deserts or choked by the sur...

On 15th February 2003 up to two million people marched through the streets of London against the forthcoming war in Iraq. Around the globe...

This Iain Banks novel is about war and the consequences of war. In Bank's universe where societies span thousands of solar systems, a wa...

In the introduction to this, the revised and expanded version of the novel, Stephen King makes it clear that he thinks that the series of no...

Thud, Terry Pratchett's latest Discworld novel to hit paperback continues pretty much where the last few have left off. Once again, we a...

When Vesuvius erupted in AD 79, the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum stood little chance. Both were less than 10 miles from the volcano, an...

The outbreak of war in 1914 was greeted in many countries by rejoicing. Indeed, many of the most ardent and eloquent opponents of the expec...

Francis Wheen wrote one of the best books about the life of Karl Marx, an accessible, interesting and often funny look at the great man...

The greenhouse gases that humans have emitted into the atmosphere since the industrial revolution will lead to an almost certain temperature...

When I was a kid, I read and re-read the "Swallows and Amazons" novels many times. The descriptions of children free to idle thei...