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This is, in everyway possible an utterly repugnant book. I must start out by saying two things. Firstly none of the proceeds from this publi...

When Donald Trump became President for the second time, among the batch of plans issued in the first few days, were two that raised eyebrows...

Jenny Erpenbeck's Go Went Gone was first published in German and deals with the important political issue of Europe and refugees. It...

Kay Dick's They is a forgotten classic of the dystopian fiction that is perhaps more relevant today than when it was first written. Des...

This is a remarkable account of a remarkable series of events. From February 1534 until the early summer of 1535, the German city of Münster...

The recent election results in Germany should have left everyone on the left thinking about the rise of fascism and how it can be averted. ...

In 1932 an extraordinary funeral took place in Plentywood, in the north-eastern corner of Montana, in the United States. Janis Salisbury, th...

Set in the lonely east of North Dakota, The Mighty Red is an impressive novel that draws out the isolation of small town, rural America and ...

Alexander Rabinowitch is an interesting historian. From a Russian émigré family, he grew up listening to stories about how the revolutionari...

Call for the Dead is the first appearance of John le Carré's recurring character, the British intelligence officer George Smiley. Its a...

Reading The Magicians for a second time, I cannot help but agree with my earlier review from a few years ago. Grossman's book feels, i...

Everything that I have written about the first three volumes of Jonathan Sumption's epic history of the Hundred Years War is also true o...

This deep dive into the problems with and limitations of the capitalist energy system is a powerful argument against the free market's r...

*** Spoilers *** Adrian Tchaikovsky is known for his big scale science fiction that often has unusual takes on alien planets and lifeforms -...

This entertaining, if unsatisfying, detective story is the second of Jane Harper's novels featuring the detective Aaron Falk. Unfortunat...

The Baccarat Scandal of 1890 might seem like a surprising topic of interest to a Marxist like myself. After all it concerns itself with a co...