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Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Michael Balter - The Goddess & the Bull: Çatalhöyük An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilisation

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Çatalhöyük is perhaps one of the most remarkable neolithic archaeological sites in the world. Situated in  Anatolia, Turkey, it is one of th...
Sunday, October 27, 2024

Kevin Barry - The Heart in Winter

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The town of Butte, Montana, USA, was built on mining. Its miners came from everywhere around the world, and their labour lined the pockets o...
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Anthony Seldon with Jonathan Meakin - Truss at 10: How not to be a Prime Minister

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This sort of political biography rarely interests me. But I must admit to a certain fascination with the short 49 day premiership of Liz Tru...
Sunday, October 20, 2024

Abram Leon - The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation

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Abram Leon was a brilliant intellectual and socialist activist whose life was cut short when he was murdered in Auschwitz. Born in Warsaw in...
Friday, October 18, 2024

Walter Mosley - What Next: A memoir toward world peace

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Walter Mosley is best known for his crime novels, many of which feature Easy Rawlins, an American black detective working in Los Angeles. Bu...
Thursday, October 10, 2024

John Vaillant - Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

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I write this review in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Milton's devastation of parts of Florida . Milton followed Helene , just a w...
Tuesday, October 08, 2024

John Grisham - The Runaway Jury

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It has been many years since I read a John Grisham novel. But back in the late 1990s and early 2000s I had several favourites. I was a parti...

Len Deighton - The Ipcress File

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Len Deighton's The Ipcress File came out in 1962, the first in a series about an anonymous spy who was to be christened Harry Palmer in...
Saturday, October 05, 2024

Verlaine Stoner McDonald - The Red Corner: The Rise & Fall of Communism in Northeastern Montana

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If you think of the politics of rural America, you probably think of it in terms of conservativism. A mixture of rugged individualistic poli...
Sunday, September 29, 2024

NoViolet Bulawayo - Glory

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What a remarkable work Glory is. A brilliant satrical novel about post-colonial struggles, the way that the hopes and dreams of liberation ...
Saturday, September 21, 2024

John Bellamy Foster - The Dialectics of Ecology

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What can philosophical preoccupations such as dialectics offer a world in the grip of a existential environmental crisis? For most commentat...

Sophie Yeo - Nature's Ghosts: The world we lost and how to bring it back

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Nature's Ghosts is an excellent study of the way that ecological systems are inseparable from human influence, which means that re-wild...
Friday, September 20, 2024

Frank Herbert - Dune

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Denis Villeneuve's recent two part film of Frank Herbert's Dune novel have reawakened interest in the author's multi-volume work...
Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Margaret Renn - Paul Foot: A Life in Politics

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I came to radical politics too late to see Paul Foot's contribution to the fight for socialism and against injustice in person. By the t...
Sunday, September 08, 2024

Timothy J. LeCain - Mass Destruction: The men and giant mines that wired America & scarred the planet

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Just west of the former Montana mining town of Butte, famous as the site of some of the United States' biggest battles between organise...