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Since ancient times people have known that Tibet is an area rich in mineral resources. As China's economy continues to expand at an unpr...

I am often wary of books that are collections of essays written elsewhere and collected together simply because they are all by one or more ...

There are any number of books by Marxists that look at the way that English capitalism developed out of the earlier, feudal society. Followi...

Miner's son David Powlett-Jones is shell-shocked after three years on the Western Front. Rather strangely his doctor suggests he'll ...

This is a really clever and original piece of science fiction that could only have been written by the brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky ...

Glyn Robbins' There's No Place was published just before the Grenfell disaster and Hurricane Harvey hit Houston, so it is incredibl...

Like a number of Flashman novels, Mountain of Light illuminates a small, but extremely important conflict that fundamentally shaped the B...

Given the extremely specific title it might be thought that this was a book that would only appeal to the specialist historian, but it is ac...

Initially I was disappointed by Richard Holmes' Redcoat . I had expected it to be a history of the British Army and in particular it...

In hindsight Chris Wickham's Medieval Europe was probably not an ideal choice for holiday reading. Despite being relatively short at 25...

Katrina Navickas' book is an interesting and refreshing look at the protest movements that took place during a crucial period in the dev...

In hindsight it is strange to read a John le Carré novel where George Smiley is taken out of the espionage circles he normally inhabits and ...

Various reviewers have described  The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet  as a "joy" or "delightful". It is certainly ente...

Toussaint Louverture remains an inspirational figure to those who want to challenge oppression and exploitation. Perhaps only Che Guevara is...

Its been quite a long time since I've read a novel quite this weird. And I mean weird in a good way.   Crime fiction about serial kille...

This lively account of the history of British agricultural trade unionism is written by one the UK left's most interesting characters. R...

Fred Archer was a celebrated author and farmer who documented the lives of the people of the small village of Ashton in the Vale of Evesham....

The poet John Clare (1793-1864) was a remarkable figure. Coming from a poor labouring family in Northamptonshire where, despite his families...

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...