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Yvonne Kapp's two volume biography of Eleanor Marx is probably one of the least well known biographies but it deserves to be on every ...

The recent film “The Downfall” caused an interesting response from some reviewers. For so long, Hitler had been portrayed as a “monster” o...

Ed McBain stands out as a detective writer - not because of his gigantic output, though that is impressive - he wrote literally dozens of sh...

I have to admit that I really like Richard Morgan's SF. This admission is important, because what I am about to say may sound like I hat...

When Leon Trotsky described the people who made up the mass backbone of the Fascist movements of Europe in the 1930s, he wrote : "On t...

Some things are best left in the past. When I first read Poppy Z Brite , her books captured that strange fixation of the late 80s and early ...

This, the sequel to the magnificent “I Claudius” deserves to be reviewed differently to it’s predecessor. While there is little doubt in my ...

For thousands of years people have travelled to Egypt to see the pyramids. Even when first built they must have attracted visitors from far ...

The huge ancient Egyptian temple at Edfu in southern Egypt must be one of the best-preserved places of the many impressive buildings that h...

This 1999 science fiction novel looks at the ideas of alternate realities / universes with a somewhat different approach. Things start out p...

The 40 year rule by Augustus, the first emperor of Rome, which ended in AD14, was followed by decades of the most infamous periods of Roman ...

The most recent demonstration in London, against the ongoing occupation of Iraq once again showed that most of those who oppose the US and U...

First published in 1942, Gordon Childe’s classic work “What happened in history” is an attempt to explain to the ordinary, non-academic pers...

Everyone is either talking about this novel, or about to start talking about it, and that is neither a bad thing, nor a surprising thing. Wh...

This is science fiction on a grand scale. When I say grand, I mean big. Everything about this novel is big. Firstly it’s 646 pages long. S...

The Roman Republic was a mass of contradictions, on the one hand it preached democracy and the power of the ordinary voter, on the other, it...

Iain Banks writes two types of books. Science Fiction (as Iain M Banks) and non-SF. But his novels can also be put into two other categori...

In the later years of the 19th Century, and the early decades of the twentieth, right-wing politicians led campaigns full of prejudice, lie...

Well I don't care if you think that it's simplistic humour, I like Terry Pratchett's discworld series. They are nothing but hum...

I was given Simon Winchester's book Krakatoa for Christmas and anyone else who had the same present must have remarked on the coiniciden...