Tuesday, 28 April 2015

Review: William Waldegrave, A Different Kind of Weather

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I do not normally buy politicians' Memoirs - nor do many people, it seems, since most Memoirs end up fairly rapidly remaindered. Th...
Saturday, 25 April 2015

Review: Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark

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Twenty or thirty years ago in England, the Arts Council put up a prize for a literary work written under the influence of drugs. It was...
Friday, 24 April 2015

Review: Blaine Harden, The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot

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Books about North Korea are popular. The macabre theatre of the regime, aimed at Western audiences, fascinates us in a way which the n...
Monday, 20 April 2015

Review: Tom Burgis, The Looting Machine

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How come Africans are so poor when Africa is so rich in natural resources? Simply because the revenues generated by exploitation of t...
Thursday, 16 April 2015

Review: Lionel Davidson, Kolymsky Heights

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This is a 2015 re-issue of a 1994 novel with an Introduction by Philip Pullman. It's a Quest, Grail and Chase thriller. The her...
Sunday, 12 April 2015

Review: Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans

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I wanted to read this book and did so, cover to cover, but I found it rather disappointing. It's very much a conventional militar...
Saturday, 28 March 2015

Review: Richard Davenport-Hines, Universal Man, The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes

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Back on 13 January 2013 I enthusiastically reviewed Richard Davenport-Hines' An English Affair , a history of the Profumo scandal....