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The Irish Potato Famine of 1845-9 probably resulted in 1.5 million deaths. A further million people fled the country looking for food and ...

Iain M. Banks' Against A Dark Background is perhaps his most militaristic novel. It's heroine Lady Sharrow begins the novel living i...

Francis Pryor makes it clear in his introduction that this isn't intended to be either a definitive academic history, nor a social histo...

Everyone should have at least one favourite novel that they return to year after year. One of mine is Nicholas Monsarrat's The Cruel Se...

The concept of infinity is one of those slightly misunderstood scientific ideas. Everyone thinks they know what it means, but Brian Clegg...

Despite the strange world that Andrew Kaufman's book is set in – one populated by a limited, but significant number of superheros (Toron...

Organised religion certainly needs the fun poked at it, and Thomas Disch certainly does that here. Now any book that contains the line ...

Since I heard it was going to be published, I've desperately be waiting for Frank Henderson's auto-biography to be published. For t...

The sheer scale of Iain M Banks' Science Fiction always excites me. His ability to blend far reaching ideas with a galactic scale, witho...

The Little Sister is not one of Raymond Chandlers better known novels. It is however one of the classic Phillip Marlowe novels and has all t...

The classic story of the low level gangster trying to break through into the big time has been told many times. Rarely though, has it been t...

This first volume of Tony Cliff 's biography of Leon Trotsky is a compelling read. Unfortunately, it isn't the best introduction t...

Despite what you learn from a childhood watching British war films, or even the potted history of the war you can pick up from The History ...

There is a great irony that we live on a planet which is two thirds covered in water, yet millions of people around the globe live in areas ...

The 1970s was an important era of transition for Hollywood. It marked the time when the blockbuster summer film came to the for, making t...

Few novels can be as responsible for fundamentally changing the outlook of its readers as Dalton Trumbo's classic anti-war story, "...

Marcus Rediker is one of two historians of the “ Revolutionary Atlantic ”. Along with Peter Linebaugh , he co-authored one of the best acco...

There is a danger with books of archaeology, particularly those that are about sites like Pompeii, where we know alot about the day to day l...

The complex relationships at the heart of big business have been a theme in earlier works by Iain Banks, though in "The Steep Approach ...

The events of the 1926 British General Strike aren’t an issue for abstract historical discussion; they are, more importantly, an example of...