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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History by David Aaronovitch
May 3, 2025Voodoo Histories isn’t an attempt to tell everyone to chill out and stop worrying about what...
Fiction Reviews
The Scarpetta Factor by Patricia Cornwell
April 12, 2025She’s developed an enjoyable way of beginning novels in the middle of a story, letting her...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Democracy: 1,000 Years in Pursuit of British Liberty by Peter Kellner
April 7, 2025Magna Carta, that legendary document which is so frequently referred to in discussions of freedom, and...
Politics
Waiting for the Etonians by Nick Cohen
April 1, 2025Nick Cohen is undoubtedly one of Britain’s finest living polemicists, and Waiting for the Etonians will...
Mystery
The Roar of the Butterflies by Reginald Hill
March 26, 2025Hill has written far fewer books about the black Luton lathe operator turned PI, but The...
Fiction Reviews
Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell
March 23, 2025There are flashes of wit – the description of the morgue as a “deconstruction site”, for...
Fiction Reviews
Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell
March 23, 2025Much more serious, though, is the book’s take on the medieval world as a whole. Alongside...
Espionage
A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carré
March 14, 2025The violent and crude final pages of the book force us to scrutinise our feelings over...
Crime Fiction
The Right Side of the Tracks
March 1, 2025Detective fiction revels in the possibilities offered by railway travel, but it also expresses some anxiety...
Fiction Reviews
Lots in a Name
February 22, 2025Rather more subtle is Hercule Poirot, whose name contains elements of both “Hercules”, the classical hero,...
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