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April 21, 2021 Adrian MacKinder – Stan Lee – How Marvel Changed The World!
Adrian MacKinder – Pen & Sword White Owl £19.99 $29.99 Face Front, True Believers! This is the story of the man who gave the world the Marvel Universe, who bestrode the comic-book industry like a colossus, and who said “Face … Continue reading →
28 min
March 07, 2021 Paul Theroux from the archives – Chicago Loop
Paul Theroux – Hamish Hamilton – £20.95 Long before he was the father of Louis Theroux, Paul Theroux was a distinguished and prolific travel writer and novelist. Born in 1941 (and we are delighted to note he is still with … Continue reading →
16 min
September 25, 2020 Philip Norman – Wild Thing: The short, spellbinding life of Jimi Hendrix
Philip Norman – Weidenfeld and Nicolson – £20 It is generally accepted that Jimi Hendrix is the most important guitarist in the history of rock music. In just four years he revolutionised everybody’s idea of what an electric guitar was … Continue reading →
26 min
August 15, 2020 Larry Watson – The Lives Of Edie Pritchard
Larry Watson – Algonquin Books £21.99 $27.95 The Lives of Edie Pritchard is Larry Watson’s eleventh novel, and he is at the height of his powers. It is a big novel set in Larry’s back yard of the states where … Continue reading →
23 min
June 14, 2020 Liz Williams – Miracles of Our Own Making: A History of Paganism
Liz Williams – Reaktion Books – £15.95 In her discussion of Stonehenge, Liz Williams writes: “There is a legend that Merlin simply flew the entire circle from Ireland, which I think we can rule out.” This is typical of her … Continue reading →
30 min
May 30, 2020 Chris Kirkham - Decoherence
Chris Kirkham – Wallace Publishing – £8.99 You have to salute a debut novel that swaggers its ambition. Boasting the subtitle “A quantum whodunnit”, Decoherence duly boasts chapters called ‘Entanglement’, ‘Wave Function’, ‘Entropy’ and so on. Our hero, Sirius Peabody, … Continue reading →
26 min
May 12, 2020 Stephen Tow – London, Reign Over Me: How England’s Capital Built Classic Rock
Stephen Tow – Rowman and Littlefield £15.99 To have been young in London in the 1960’s must have been very heaven. At least if you had a yen to see live music in clubs and pubs and a dilapidated hotel … Continue reading →
22 min
April 23, 2020 Helen Lewis – Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights
Helen Lewis – Jonathan Cape £13.59 Well-behaved women don’t make history, and we need to be a bit grown up about our approach to feminism. That is the starting point of the new book from Helen Lewis. Lewis is a … Continue reading →
32 min
January 19, 2020 Barry Forshaw – Crime Fiction – A Reader’s Guide
Barry Forshaw – Oldcastle Books £12.99 Barry Forshaw is one of the UK’s leading experts on crime fiction. Writer, commentator, editor, broadcaster and enthusiast, his fingerprints are everywhere. If anybody knows where the bodies are buried, it is he. Why … Continue reading →
31 min
November 19, 2019 Steve Richards - The Prime Ministers: Reflections on Leadership from Harold Wilson to Theresa May
Steve Richards – Atlantic Books £20 You have to wonder why the office of Prime Minister is so coveted. While many politicians aspire to Number Ten, more or less all the Prime Ministers in this book spent at least some … Continue reading →
35 min

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