Insurrection
The American Presidential election campaign of 2024 is well underway. The primary election phase of the campaign, often the most interesting, when Democrats and Republicans chose their candidates for...
View ArticleA Miscellany of Summer Reading
Can it be? Summer’s here? Perhaps it once was, and may yet show its face again, but if 1st July typically marks the start of the season in everyone’s mind, it’s fitting that we get prepped for our...
View ArticleShanghai by Joseph Kanon
In his latest foray into the pre-Second World War world of spies and emigrés living on the edge that provides one of his favourite milieu Joseph Kanon has moved from Europe to the Far East to the...
View ArticleSaving The World
As titles go, this is quite a bold one though, to be fair, it has a long explanatory sub-title: How forests inspired global efforts to stop climate change from 1770 to the present. It is then a...
View ArticleDiva
Diva is the latest foray into fiction by the screenwriter and TV produce Daisy Goodwin. As with her three previous books it is either inspired by or based on the life of a real person, always an...
View ArticleAgatha Christie by Lucy Worsley
Like, I suspect, most people, my knowledge of Agatha Christie has been limited to having watched the long-running Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple series on television. As to the author herself, I knew...
View ArticleMidnight and Blue by Ian Rankin
Ian Rankin latest Rebus novel Midnight and Blue is as well written as any of its twenty-four predecessors and should please any aficianados as well as any casual readers. Rebus continues to dominate...
View ArticleLife, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
Peter Moore’s most recent book was not written with the United States election in mind but it does provide interesting historical background to the establishment of the American Republic and, not...
View ArticleThe English Soul: The Faith of a Nation
Peter Ackroyd is a prolific writer, having published over sixty-five books as poet, novelist, biographer and cultural historian. At the heart of his writing, whether fiction or non-fiction, are the...
View ArticleChristmas Gifting: A Biographical Miscellany
When it comes to gifts, books are a failsafe option, notably when the recipient is someone who has everything but you know that a particular subject might appeal to them. From romantic history to Cold...
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