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Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Ivan Doig - Winter Brothers: A season at the edge of America

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James Gilchrist Swan was a remarkable individual. Born in 1818 he spend most of his life in the Pacific North West, now part of Washington s...
Sunday, November 17, 2024

Hal Draper - Socialism from Below

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The US Marxist Hal Draper is perhaps best remembered for his monumental, multivolume study of the revolutionary thought of Karl Marx. But so...

Wole Talabi - Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon

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Wole Talabi is a well known Nigerian author, but this is their first foray into fantasy. Set in a universe where the spirit and human worlds...
Monday, November 11, 2024

Chantal Lyons - Groundbreakers: The return of Britain's wild boar

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Until I picked up Chantal Lyons' Groundbreakers I had no idea that there were parts of the British Isles that had hundreds of wild boar...
Sunday, November 10, 2024

Lee Child - Die Trying

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This, the second Jack Reacher novel, follow a pattern that I suspect will become common place in the series. Jack Reacher randomly finds him...
Sunday, November 03, 2024

Rhian E. Jones - Rebecca's Country

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The "Rebecca Riots" were one of the most striking examples of rural rebellion during the 19th century. Today they are mostly remem...
Saturday, November 02, 2024

James M. Cain - Mildred Pierce

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This 1941 novel by James M. Cain is not one of his best known, though it was made into a film starring Joan Crawford as the eponymous Mildre...
Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Michael Balter - The Goddess & the Bull: Çatalhöyük An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilisation

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Çatalhöyük is perhaps one of the most remarkable neolithic archaeological sites in the world. Situated in  Anatolia, Turkey, it is one of th...