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Novels set in the ancient world often suffer because the author feels obliged to describe the alien surroundings. We end up reading all ab...

Alexandra Kollontai's life matches almost exactly the rise, and then fall of revolutionary Russia. She was born to a well-off, upp...

Having seen Lynsey Hanley's book on council estates favourably mentioned in Owen Jones' book Chavs I was looking forward to readi...

The fiftieth anniversary of the first publication of Silent Spring by Rachel Carson has been covered widely in the media (see this rollin...

When I reviewed Deborah Lipstadt's book Denying the Holocaust I wrote that it was "a service to all those who believe in histor...

Spoiler Alert This sequel to The Steel Remains is a very different novel, and if I can indulge myself in a slightly unfair metaphor, I...

Begun in the late 1920s, finished in 1937 after the author burnt the first version and not published until 1966, The Master and Margarita ...

Owen Jones is clearly a rising star of the Labour left. I've arrived late to review Chavs which has been extensively reviewed, debated...

At first sight 'The Good War' simply looked to me like a collection of reminiscences from people who had been involved in World W...

The Tomb Builders is a companion book to Shadowland . Both deal with very distinct, but linked periods of ancient history. They concentra...

Taking it's title from Frederick Engels' description of Salford, The Classic Slum is part social history, part autobiography and ...

Richard Morgan is best known for his gritty, violent, near-future novels, usually set in a universe where Earth's multinationals hold ...

In December 1912, Charles Dawson and Arthur Woodward announced an enormous scientific discovery to a packed lecture room. Hundreds of scie...

When groups of environmental campaigners gather together, it does not take long for China to come up in discussion. Frequently this is in ...