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This was a remarkable accidental discovery. Ironically I came across Richard Gough Thomas' new biography of William Godwin because I was...

Kim Stanley Robinson's latest novel,  The Ministry for the Future , is a detailed future history about humans and the environment. But y...

*** Spoilers *** Somehow Maigret at the Crossroads is the only Maigret that I've read. Georges Simenon's French police detective fe...

Despite being intended as a university text book this is a interesting and readable study of the living conditions of people in the English ...

*** Warning Spoilers *** In some not so distant future, urban areas are over-crowded, polluted, violent and poor. The countryside has all bu...

The first novel I read by Robert Seethaler was the whimsical and beautiful A Whole Life . In some ways The Tobacconist is a very different ...

The growing climate crisis places a new importance on discussions around migration, refugees and immigration. The environmental movement has...

When I learnt history at school we understood the "Dark Ages" as a period when little happened. The Romans had left England and th...

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...