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Produced by the National Museum of Wales, this is a lavishly illustrated, short but comprehensive guide to a distinctive period of Welsh h...

Partly because of its setting, this is an unusual detective story. Set in the midst of the ruins of Berlin in the immediate aftermath of t...

The Battle of the Little Bighorn is one of those historical events that inspires endless books, articles and obsession. Towards the end o...

Peter Fryer's history of prudery begins by pointing out that the Roman Cicero advised his friends not to say, "little pavements...

First published in 1978, this book by John Molyneux helped convince a layer of socialists that they needed to be part of a revolutionary par...

In the introduction to my edition of this novel, Chandler's biographer tells us that the author was drunk and depressed for most of th...

There will probably never be an end to the publication of books about World War Two. The sheer scale and horror of the conflict, combined ...

The election of Lula as President of Brazil in 2003 was one of a series of left wing shocks that shook Latin America in the early to mid-...

Charles Darwin is one of those people whose lives inspire in all sorts of ways. His work on evolution is one part of this, his insights an...

As the scientific reports on the reality of global warming grow ever more frightening, Heather Rogers' book Green Gone Wrong explores...

Unsurprisingly, Karl Marx is one of those figures in history who attracts biographers. Some of these are sympathetic, some are hagiograp...

Spoilers ahead: On of the fascinating things about reading science fiction is the way that, despite deploying fantastical ideas, it dat...

There have probably been a hundred James Bond impersonators. Few of them match Ian Fleming's style and writing ability. Peter O'Do...

Swedish journalists and trade unionists Gunnar Brulin and Malin Klingzell-Brulin have here attempted to produce a book that helps us under...

The Nuer of the Southern Sudan live in the country that borders the Nile river and other tributary rivers. Their life revolves around thei...

Waking in a dirty, run down hotel, Corporal Gary finds that his drunken binge has left him in a really bad fix. While he slept off the alc...

Readers may remember the excitement near the end of 1999 when a wooden circle was discovered on a Norfolk beach. Surrounding a central, upr...