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In some ways this is a fairly bog standard detective thriller, but because it reads so easily, and seems to have avoided some of the cliches...

Recently I briefly mentioned Robert Heinlein in a post , and following on from that and a comment made by Stefanie I decided to re-read ...

What springs to mind when you you hear about the Blitz? Probably, if you have lived in Britain for any length of time, you'll imagine ch...

There comes a time (or a book) in most author's canon, when devoted readers realise that the author they have loved for a long time isn...

It is almost true to say that I was embarrassed into reading this book. I got sent one of those lists of "a hundred greatest novels...

As he stood on the scaffold waiting to hang for his part in trying to organise a revolutionary army to seize power in London and declare a...

A few days ago, I did a simple piece of original research - to see whether there were now more people reading the latest Harry Potter novel ...

1888 was a monumental year for East London. It was the year "Jack the Ripper" brutalised prostitutes and brought the eyes of the ...

There are mystery writers and there are mystery writers. As far as I am concerned, you can take your Agatha Christie’s and your Hammett’s an...

I am pretty sure that there used to be a series of collected works by Lenin, called the "Little Lenin Library", though whether t...

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...