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In 2020 we saw the ecological and social contradictions of capitalism exposed. The Covid-19 pandemic, arising out of the inroads that capita...

Terence Wise is best known today as the author of multiple books on military history. But in his younger years, after being demobbed in the ...

There is a famous quote from Hegel from 1806 when he saw the Napoleon Bonaparte after his capture of Jena. "I saw the Emperor – this w...

Re-reading Consider Phlebas many years after I was first enthralled by it, I was immediately reminded how great the scope of Iain M. Banks...

Almost five hundred years ago in 1525 in the midst of the Protestant Reformation, the German Peasant began - a movement of the poor, downtro...

The imminent 10th anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster combined with growing advocacy for nuclear power led me to this interesting ...

When I first learnt that Bill Gates, the multi-billionaire founder of Microsoft, had written a book on solving climate change, my instinct w...

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...