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Rachel Carson's Silent Spring  is probably the most famous ecological work every published. Its clarity and its clarion call for action,...

I'll admit to making a mistake with Blindsight . I bought it thinking it would be a 'hard' science fiction of first contact with...

The bravery of merchant seamen is often overlooked, and despite the horrific realities of the Arctic convoys during World War Two the experi...

Alun Howkin's book The Death of Rural England is a sweeping history of the transformation of the English (and occasionally Welsh) count...

Somewhere about a third of the way through Lavie Tidhar's Central Station I realised that I had been missing a crucial aspect to the no...

In Connie Willis' future world, time travel is possible, but it isn't profitable so corporations have abandoned it, and instead time...

Judith Orr's book could not be better timed. With abortion rights in Ireland the subject of an upcoming referendum and Trump's desir...

I will admit that when I fixed picked up Jonathan Watts' book I did not have much hope that I would enjoy it. Books on the environmental...

Claire North's first two books focused on individuals with odd powers. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August was about people who retu...

A recent trip to the North of Ireland prompted me to look at the history of Ireland. Robert Kee's Green Flag trilogy is often recommende...

This is an incredible work of history. It describes, in often horrible detail, the Indian Mutiny and specifically the Cawnpore Massacre of t...

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...