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This is an unusual novel that deserves to be better known. Neil Rathmell tells the story of Kett's Rebellion of 1549, a major upheaval...

A study of attempts to deal with poverty, hunger and malnutrition in Belo Horizonte, Brazil and what this means for food poverty, sustaina...

Long term readers of this my reviews will know that I have a great love for much of Stephen King's work and particularly his Dark Towe...

This classic study of English agriculture was first published by the author in Germany in 1894 and translated into English in 1908, where ...

I was looking forward enormously to A Legacy of Spies  and re-read its prequel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold in preparation. That boo...

Mike Davis is the author of many excellent socialist books, two of which have been highly influential on me - L ate Victorian Holocausts ...

By all accounts John le Carré wrote The Looking Glass War disappointed that readers of his best selling The Spy Who Came in from the Cold ...

When Caroline Herschel was born in 1750 no one would have imagined that she would have become lauded throughout Europe as one of the most ...

Charles Oman's book is an important historical milestone. It was one of the first historical works to treat the English Peasants Rebel...

Having recently enjoyed Guy Gavriel Kay's Children of Earth and Sky I took Tigana from the library to read on a brief holiday. Sadly ...

Re-reading The Spy Who Came in from the Cold ahead of getting hold of its sequel, I am struck once again how perfectly crafted le Carré...

This short, but clear and well-written book is one of the better explanations of Karl Marx's economics to come out of the publishing f...

Snow Crash is one of the great works of science fiction that came out in the run up to the millennium. Alongside writers like William Gibs...

Rather like 2017 , 2018 is proving to be a year of reading books associated with various anniversaries . But most importantly it is fifty ...

Having picked up Children of Earth and Sky  on a whim in the library, I was extremely taken by Guy Gavriel Kay's writing. This sweepin...

This month saw the 75th anniversary of the Jewish Warsaw Ghetto uprising against the Nazis. This prompted me to re-read this extraordinary...

This short work by Frederick Engels is rarely read, but it forms an important part of his contribution to Marxist historical works and the...

One of the great things about the Inspector Morse novels is that they are relatively timeless. Morse and Lewis don't have mobile phone...

Outcasts of Time is a beautiful book. It tells the story of two Devon men caught up in 1348 in the horror of the plaque. John Wrayment is...

A recent visit to the World War One battlefields of Flanders has awakened an interest in that horrific conflict, but having read a number ...