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This collection of stories by Raymond Chandler will be familiar to anyone who has read any of his other works. They all begin from a simil...

This excellent collection of essays by Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank brings together beautiful travelogues infused with ecological sc...

John Bellamy Foster's classic work Marx's Ecology was published in 2000. Since then it has rightly become a classic study of the e...

April 2020 was the two hundredth anniversary of the forgotten "Scottish Insurrection" of 1820. First published in 1970 for 150th...

Following my enjoyment of Lev Grossman's The Magicians I've pitched in quite quickly to reading the sequels. This, volume two, con...

One morning a Welsh farmer Gareth wakes up during a long, hot, drought-ridden summer. He kisses his wife Kate and tells her he is off to f...

In the last couple of decades the story of Easter Island/Rapa Nui has been retold many times because of its supposed relevance to accounts...

This novel puts an science fiction twist on the age old story of the sailors trapped on a lifeboat after their ship is sunk. Set in a un...

For those of us living in Europe, the history of World War Two tends to be dominated by events in Europe. Even this is distorted - the Bri...

The story of a young man discovering he has magical powers and finding out there's a secret magic school that he can attend to develop...

Hubert Mingarelli's beautifully written short story set during the Russian Civil War delivers an emotionally powerful account of comra...

Thomas Robert Malthus is usually remembered today for his thoughts on over-population. Since the publication of the first edition of his i...

I was drawn to Dashiell Hammett's classic hard-boiled detective novel on learning that it had served as the inspiration for Akira Kuro...

Over the last few decades John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark have been at the forefront of showing how classical Marxism is the foremost ...

Why should we plant, when there are so many mongongos in the world? - /Xashe, a !Kung man from Mahopa Richard B Lee's classic book o...

Outside of Iain Bank's science fiction  Whit  is his novel that I've repeatedly enjoyed over the years (which explains why it'...

In Britain today trans people have a greater visibility than perhaps at any other time in the country's history. As a result trans peo...

To understand Victor Serge's Unforgiving Years means understanding Serge's own life. As a young anarchist he was imprisoned for hi...