Stories By Jem Bloomfield
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History
Book Review: Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History by David Aaronovitch
September 3, 2022Voodoo Histories isn’t an attempt to tell everyone to chill out and stop worrying about what...
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Crime Fiction
The Scarpetta Factor by Patricia Cornwell
August 13, 2022She’s developed an enjoyable way of beginning novels in the middle of a story, letting her...
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Great Britain
Democracy: 1,000 Years in Pursuit of British Liberty by Peter Kellner
August 7, 2022Magna Carta, that legendary document which is so frequently referred to in discussions of freedom, and...
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Great Britain
Waiting for the Etonians by Nick Cohen
August 1, 2022Nick Cohen is undoubtedly one of Britain’s finest living polemicists, and Waiting for the Etonians will...
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Crime Fiction
The Roar of the Butterflies by Reginald Hill
July 26, 2022Hill has written far fewer books about the black Luton lathe operator turned PI, but The...
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Crime Fiction
Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell
July 23, 2022There are flashes of wit – the description of the morgue as a “deconstruction site”, for...
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Fiction Reviews
Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell
July 22, 2022Much more serious, though, is the book’s take on the medieval world as a whole. Alongside...
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Espionage
A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carré
July 14, 2022The violent and crude final pages of the book force us to scrutinise our feelings over...
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Crime Fiction
The Right Side of the Tracks
July 2, 2022Detective fiction revels in the possibilities offered by railway travel, but it also expresses some anxiety...
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Crime Fiction
Lots in a Name
June 25, 2022Rather more subtle is Hercule Poirot, whose name contains elements of both “Hercules”, the classical hero,...
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