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The arrival of the latest Flashman novel has always been a source of some rejoicing in this reader’s heart. Flashman, as most of you will be...

There are many “M” words to describe this work. Here are a few that I find particularly appropriate; Magnificent, Marvellous, Monumental. ...

The Very Short Introduction series perform exactly what it says on the tin – they are short (this comes to 192 pages including glossary, in...

This famous title “ranks with the greatest books ever written in the English language”, or it is according to the quote from no less a revie...

It’s rare that I buy a book on the strength of a film. Maybe this is a unique example of that particular method of choosing literature. Bu...

While reading this book, I wondered how the world will end. Will we drown as the rising tides caused by Climate Change engulf the major c...

When campaigning journalist Paul Foot died last year died, many people remarked how much he would be missed. A tireless campaigner for soci...

Anyone who has looked at one of those lists of Roman Emperors and the dates they ruled will have noticed a strange thing. Over the years AD6...

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...