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While thinking about this review, I looked up the Wikipedia entry for Dead Air , and found to my amusment, that most of what I thought had ...

The end of 2004 saw something remarkable happen in Antarctica. For the first time, extensive meadows of grass appeared in an area of the w...

Famously, Raymond Chandler’s “The Big Sleep” had a plot so complex, that when it was originally filmed the producers telegraphed Chandler ...

One of the amusing things about Theroux’s travels across the continent of Africa by land (and at a couple of boats), is the way that when...

C L R James’ work “The Black Jacobins” was once described to me as the best piece of history ever written. Certainly it is one of the best t...

Larry Niven's Ringworld is one of the truly great science-fiction novels. It might lack some of the subtle commentary on contemporary ...

The war between the Persians and the Greek city-states is one where ancient myths seem to mingle with real history. The tales of heroism and...

If, like me, you enjoy walking around the streets of London looking at sites of historic importance, then you will have often raged at the ...

The only other book I have read of Brian Cathcart’s is his wonderful, blow by blow account of election night 1997 and the meltdown of the To...

A truly great satirist can poke fun at things on many levels. Pratchett’s gift is that he can take something like the Postal Service, move i...

It doesn’t take that scientific a look at human history before you start to see a pattern – the rise and fall of societies, civilisations...

In the last twelve months I’ve been privileged to read a number of Roman historians and historians of Rome. Some ancient, some modern. Whil...

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...