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How do the rich and powerful justify their position in society to the people who they rule? That question is at the heart of this book. Rul...

The basic premise of Biskind's trawl through the strange world of 1950s Hollywood films is that at the heart of American society ther...

It will perhaps be gratifying for many people to know that a book written almost 2000 years ago still contains within it the themes that mak...

I like reading books that “everyone” says you must read years after the craze has died away, but I have to say that I missed out on Peter Ca...

I started reading this book because of my own personal disgust at the rise of "intelligent design" in the US education system a...

This is a brilliant debut Science Fiction novel. Stross has done something quite special here, as you can see from the tributes on the back ...

I read this pretty much concurrent with Charles Darwin's account of his voyages with the Beagle and there are some amazing differences ...

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...