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When David Irving was sent to jail in February 2006, for statements he had made denying the Holocaust, there was a mass of debate in the pr...

At the start of this review I’d like to offer an award. It’s very simply an award for best imagined universe. In The Algebraist, Banks’ late...

I’ve always thought that Asimov’s Robotic Laws were a bit of a cop out. Perhaps it’s my computer programming background, but I always had th...

One of the things I’ve discovered about fighting election campaigns is that fiction helps. Preferably fiction that doesn’t feature elections...

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...