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The first two books of the Dark Materials trilogy are great novels. But really they simply are setting the scene for the brilliant climax th...

There is no polite way to say this, but Ragnar Jónasson's novel is terrible. It is badly written, has a contrived plot and a jumble of i...

I've already reviewed Dave Sherry's new book on the Russian Revolution for Socialist Worker , and I hope you'll read that in con...

This new collection of essays from one of the world's leading Marxist environmentalists is an important contribution to discussions abou...

The way that humans have understood and related to the universe around them has varied dramatically throughout history. One aspect to this, ...

The Subtle Knife is where Philip Pullman's Dark Materials trilogy moves from a slightly foreboding children's fantasy to a truly d...

The life of Joseph Arch, agricultural labourer, Methodist preacher, trade union leader and liberal MP, is a fascinating one that Pamela Ho...

This fascinating account of North America in the mid 19th century is a description of Francis Parkman's expedition into lands remote fro...

Joyce Marlow's history of The Tolpuddle Martyrs is a classic of its period. It tells the story of the Martyrs well, allowing for occasi...

Ahead of Philip Pullman releasing the companion books to the His Dark Materials trilogy I've been re-reading the original novels, ones ...

I found The Shock of the Anthropocene  a very interesting book that has a lot to say about the multiple environmental crises that we are cur...

This short and readable account of the Tolpuddle Martyrs focuses on the life of the key figure in their struggle, George Loveless. Loveless ...

Bloody terrible. This novel is intended as a tribute to Arthur C. Clarke, extending his classic tale A Meeting With Medusa . But it combines...

While seemingly a rather specialised topic, Martin Green's history of the neolithic, bronze and iron ages as understood through studies ...

S.A. Smith's Red Petrograd is one of the best books I've ever read in the Russian Revolution, so I had high expectations of this on...

This is the most recent serious book on the Captain Swing movement. Its author is keen to present it as the definitive work that surpasses t...

Hobsbawm and Rudé's Captain Swing is one of those books that dominates a particular historical field. Their examination of the 1830 Capt...

The Hammonds begin their account of the changes to "skilled labourers" in this period by saying it reads "like a civil war...

When I was about 10 my grandfather gave me a huge book of world mythology. Many of the accounts inside gave me real insights into the cultur...

The first volume of John Romer's history of Ancient Egypt  is a brilliant examination of the rise of the Egyptian state from hunter-gat...