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I began reading Stephen King's epic Dark Tower series back in 2006. For reasons best known to myself I decided only to buy them when...

Published to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Martin Luther King Jnr's famous "I have a Dream" speech, Gary Younge's new b...

When I lived in East London, I always felt it was one of those urban areas where events of historical importance seemed to have taken place ...

  Spoiler Alert With this, volume six of the Dark Tower series, Stephen King's epic series begins to draw to a close. Sadly this n...

In recent years there has been renewed interest in the work of the German revolutionary socialist, Paul Levi. In part this has been inspired...

Those who follow my reviews regularly might find Wolf Hall  an odd choice of novel. After all, what interest could a revolutionary sociali...

The arrival of Columbus in the New World in 1492 is often seen as the date which changed history. But had  it been possible to have some so...

In the early 1970s, Walter Rodney wrote How Europe Underdeveloped Africa . His argument was that Europe had underdeveloped Africa in the i...

*Spoilers Alert* While engaging in my own writing tasks I recently decided to re-read Larry Niven's Ringworld series in its entiri...

Ever so often you come across a book which profoundly shakes you. Mike Davis' Late Victorian  Holocausts is one of those. On every page...

Subtitled How Our Prehistoric Ancestors set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery and Empire this is a very important, and extremely well researc...

This collection of essays is an extremely important contribution to our understanding of racism, and a powerful tool for those trying to l...

Roger Moorhouse's history of life in Berlin during World War Two is an exceptionally readable and detailed account of the lives of ...

With the recent death of Iain M. Banks, few left wing science fiction writers remain. Ken Macleod and Kim Stanley Robinson are two that spri...