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This is a work full of unimaginable pain and suffering. It follows a loose group of Jewish partisans behind German lines in the last few ...

From the evidence of this collection of stories, Thomas Mann was not a happy chap. Or at the very least, he enjoyed discussing the inner con...

This collection of essays on a general theme of capitalism and the environment was first printed in 2002, though all the essays are from the...

The February 2007 part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's report made a number of stark predictions about climate change...

I suspect that most of the people who read this book (or indeed this review), will never have seen a slum. I don’t mean the run down bits ho...

All the children's novels Arthur Ransome wrote are escapism. This one deals with the unlikely story of four children alone on a sailing ...

This little book by Duncan Hallas , one of the longest standing members of the SWP in Britain until his death in 2002, contains a brilliant...

For those who want to attack the Russian Revolution of October 1917, there are many myths to peddle. Chief amongst these, are that the revo...

This ancient work by Tacitus is a history of one of the most important periods of Imperial Rome, the period between the death of Augustus, t...

This Victorian novel of courage, bravery and honour, described as "The gripping tale of one man's struggle to ease the brand 'c...

There are a plethora of books coming out at the moment about Climate Change, a colleague of mine half jokingly described it as “the new reli...

Terry Pratchett's Wintersmith is at once an age old story of how a God falls in love with a mortal, it's also a story of how the God...

Anti-capitalist protesters like to rage at the practices of Starbucks. The US coffee chain that seemingly pops up everywhere, drowning out i...

Few individuals can have had as full a life as Leon Trotsky. A radical from a young age, a Marxist organiser who was sent to prison in his ...

Iron Sunrise starts with a remarkable act of terrorism - a sun is artificially made to go supernova and billions of people die. However the ...

I fear that this wonderful comic novel is on it's way to becoming a forgotten classic. I desperately hope it doesn't perhaps this re...

John Hoffecker's book is an extrememly scholarly look at one of the oldest questions of archaeology - just how and when did humankind sp...

There’s a point near the beginning of this novel where the father and son ‘heros’ find an old destroyed soft drinks machine in the rubble of...

Watching the Australian cricket team destroy the pathetic English equivalent over the last few months has been a joy for those of us who su...

About three quarters of the way through this comic book introduction to the perils and issues around Climate Change, Kate Evans’ main charac...