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The fourth and final volume of Simmon's Hyperion Cantos brings together multiple narrative threads from the previous book and the two e...

Endymion is the third part of Dan Simmons Hyperion Cantos . While the second two books form an independent story, readers would be well advi...

There has been an enormous boom in nature writing in the last few years. Visits to mainstream bookshops are now often dominated by shelves g...

Regular readers might know that British socialist Chris Harman was a key influence on my (and many others) development as a Marxist activist...

I have previously reviewed and enthused about Henry Heller's writing on the transition from feudalism to capitalism, so I was excited to...

A fascinating account of the biological and social history of wheat, one of the world's three key food crops. My review was published at...

The  The Burning Question  begins by asking a really important question. Why is it that given awareness of climate change and nearly twenty-...

This is a remarkable work of alternate-history that is innovative both in terms of its subject and its structure. Set in an alternate future...

The English country houses of the Victorian and Edwardian era are a source of endless fascination. From Brideshead Revisited to Downtown Ab...

Could this be the pandemic novel for the Covid era? This question popped into my head on numerous occasions as I devoured Connie Willis'...

Young's double slit experiment was perhaps the most fascinating piece of practical work I did when studying physics. As an experiment it...

Trial by Battle is the first book in a multi-volume epic history of the Hundred Years War between France and England. It's a detailed h...

I embarked upon reading The Canterbury Tales with a little trepidation. Oddly I was inspired to read it by my enjoyment of Dan Simmon's...

Karl Marx's Capital is a book that stays with you. Its multi-layered exploration of capitalism is one that repays study, but it is also...

When I read Barry Commoner's seminal The Closing Circle (1971) last year I was blown away. It was a book that had a refreshing approach ...

Describing, quite literarily "a whole life", this lovely short book tells the story of Andreas Egger a "mountain man" in...

I first read Ian Angus and Simon Butler's Too Many People? when it was being prepared for publication in 2011 and was happy to endorse ...