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The novel opened with an extremely gripping atmosphere of early Nordic noir. Set in Copenhagen it follows events after Smilla discovers the ...

The food we eat has been shaped by many great social, economic and cultural forces. It is the result of thousands of years of agriculture, s...

Louise Bryant arrived in Petrograd in late September 1917. She went as a journalist to cover the Russian Revolution for radical US newspaper...

Dmitri Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony is one of the greatest pieces of music of the twentieth century. It was shaped by two great event...

George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman novels are not particularly fashionable these days. They are very dated in places, not particularly b...

Fort Connah is likely the oldest standing building in Montana in the United States, but has an importance far beyond its age and architectur...

This Very Short Introduction to Martin Luther's life and ideas is a step above the previous one I read on the Reformation . It is a rea...

Peter Marshall is the author of a number of significant and important works on the Reformation, including his book on the English Reformatio...

Imagine a space smuggler whose adventures rarely bring wealth and fortune, whose luck is proverbial, yet often leaves him in situations even...

Having thoroughly enjoyed Corinne Fowler's previous book Green Unpleasant Land I was very pleased to pick up this, her most recent book...

One of the notable things about visiting the site of the Battle of the Little Bighorn today is how it has been changed, under pressure from ...

Machine Vendetta is the final novel of the Prefect trilogy, a series of hard science-fiction novels by Alastair Reynolds. It is set in the Y...

When Martin Luther penned his 95 Theses against the Church he began a process that was to have far reaching implications. It would have far ...

This is the third volume of Belfort Bax's trilogy of books on the "social side of the Reformation in Germany". As I have alrea...

I knew of Dee Brown as a historian of Native American peoples. His most famous book is, of course, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee . Some year...

***Spoilers for both of Tommy Orange's books*** Tommy Orange's second novel Wandering Stars is closely linked to his first, There,...

Having read Ivan Doig's beautiful memoir about growing up in rural Montana before I visited that state recently, I was keen to read one...