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I've previously reviewed the first novel of Philip José Farmer's series set on the fantastic Riverworld, so I won't repeat my d...

As the Tories and their lickspittle friends the Liberal Democrats try to destroy every last vestige of the welfare state, what better book t...

Cover of Russian first edition (1918) The outbreak of World War One was supposed to have been met by mass strikes and protests led by th...

The history of rabbits in the UK might seem an unusal topic, but there is a surprisingly fascinating and complex story here. Rabbits first...

I love Alan Bennett's writings. His recent article in the London Review of Books , defending libraries in the face of the cuts is a won...

Whatever else it is remembered for, 2011 will remain the year that ordinary people once again took to the stage of history. The revolutions ...

Subtitled "How America's Thirst for Petrol is Killing Us", Michael Klare's book is an excellent attempt to understand the ...

This short book is a useful look into what we know about how people in the neolithic, bronze and iron ages, farmed. Beginning with a secti...

Subtitled "A People's Takeover of the World's Food Supply", Colin Tudge's book is really a manifesto for what he cal...

If I was in the habit of giving my posts titles, I think this one would be called "My Unhappy Return to Isaac Asimov". Sick in bed...

The Highland Clearances were one of many blots of the development of the modern world. The story of the way that the Highlander crofters w...

In the introduction to this volume the series editor feels obliged to justify the length of the work itself. He points out that almost eve...

Marx's Civil War in France is both an impressive history of the Paris Commune – the short lived, but important moment in working cla...

Before reviewing this book, I want to mention how I came about it. On holiday just south of Oban on the west coast of Scotland, I visited Ki...

If you can ignore the somewhat sycophantic paeans to Al Gore that make up some of this book, and the all too demoralising hopes vested in th...

Environmental archaeologist and historian Brian Fagan has written a number of excellent books on the historical links between environmenta...

Thomas Patterson sets out to argue that central to Marx's understanding of the world, history and society was what we might now call ant...

George MacDonald Fraser is most famous for his highly entertaining Flashman novels. At the centre of those stories, which follow the adven...

According to the blurb on the back cover of Kieran Allen's latest book, it "provides a crucial alternative introduction to Marx for...