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One of my best reads over the Covid period was Charlie Jane Anders' The City in the Middle of the Night so I was really pleased that ...

I was looking forward to reading Nick Martell's debut novel because it seemed to offer an intriguing basis for the magic of this fanta...

Conventional wisdom has it that in 1492 Christopher Columbus "discovered" America. Of course he didn't discover it - that wa...

When I was young we had several trips to Berlin to visit family. There we would always look forward to visiting the Wannsee resort, playin...

Picking up The Farm I will admit that I thought it would be a rather annoying romanticised description of life in the countryside. But Ri...

One of the things that becomes quickly very clear when reading Frankenstein for the first time, is that you aren't reading the book y...

Karl Marx pointed out that there are two ways that the capitalists can extract extra surplus value from workers and hence make more profit...

Karl Marx is popularly seen as an economist. His writings are often reduced down to an economic analysis and critic of capitalism. However...

Between 2002 and 2017 some 1,500 activists were killed for their roles in protecting water, land, natural resources and the communities th...

This classic of oral history is both fascinating and entertaining to read. In the late 1940s George Ewart Evans set about recording the me...

King of Ashes is the first in a new trilogy by Raymond E. Feist, an author known for his long, intricate and interrelated fantasy book ser...

Pamela Horn is a prolific social historian whose recent work has been associated very much with the lives of the wealthy and their househo...

I wasn't old enough to really understand the Handsworth Riots when they took place in 1981. Living in Balsall Heath in Birmingham we w...

The nineteenth century saw unprecedented change in the countryside. The period of Queen Victoria's rule saw the consolidation of indus...

This is one of the classic historical accounts of life in an agricultural community during Queen Victoria's reign. Part biography, par...

This is a really radical, innovative and interesting science fiction novel, one that stands out of a field that is seeing a resurgence in ...

It is fascinating to read a book whose author I know mostly for being one of those socialists who'd moved so far from their politics t...

By coincidence I started reading Hidden Figures as the recent Black Lives Matter protests erupted in the United States and rapidly spread...