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
January 20, 2024Voodoo Histories isn’t an attempt to tell everyone to chill out and stop worrying about what...
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Fiction Reviews
The Scarpetta Factor by Patricia Cornwell
January 2, 2024She’s developed an enjoyable way of beginning novels in the middle of a story, letting her...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Democracy: 1,000 Years in Pursuit of British Liberty by Peter Kellner
December 28, 2023Magna Carta, that legendary document which is so frequently referred to in discussions of freedom, and...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Waiting for the Etonians by Nick Cohen
December 23, 2023Nick Cohen is undoubtedly one of Britain’s finest living polemicists, and Waiting for the Etonians will...
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Fiction Reviews
The Roar of the Butterflies by Reginald Hill
December 16, 2023Hill has written far fewer books about the black Luton lathe operator turned PI, but The...
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Fiction Reviews
Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell
December 13, 2023There are flashes of wit – the description of the morgue as a “deconstruction site”, for...
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Historical Fiction
Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell
December 13, 2023Much more serious, though, is the book’s take on the medieval world as a whole. Alongside...
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Fiction Reviews
A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carré
December 5, 2023The 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
November 23, 2023Detective fiction revels in the possibilities offered by railway travel, but it also expresses some anxiety...
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Fiction Reviews
Lots in a Name
November 16, 2023Rather more subtle is Hercule Poirot, whose name contains elements of both “Hercules”, the classical hero,...