Power Trip: A Decade of Policy, Plots and Spin by Damian McBride
The newly updated paperback version of Damian McBride’s Power Trip adds but a little to the original hardback edition. … Read the full post »
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The newly updated paperback version of Damian McBride’s Power Trip adds but a little to the original hardback edition. … Read the full post »
I suspect Chris Froome’s account of his rise to cycling success didn’t come out quite as he intended … Read the full post »
It’s a sign of how enjoyable and good Christopher Fowler’s Bryant & May detective series is that it got to a ninth volume, The Memory of Blood. … Read the full post »
Taylor Downing’s book Secret Warriors promises much but in the end doesn’t quite deliver. The book’s impressive breadth means it is a little short of depth … Read the full post »
The Mystery of a Hansom Cab was the best-selling crime novel of the nineteenth century, and as late as 1954 was listed by the Sunday Times as one of the best 100 crime novels of all time. … Read the full post »
Tim Milne’s account life as a secret intelligence officer, including as a colleague of Kim Philby, is an interesting footnote. … Read the full post »
Andrew Wheatcroft’s history of the Great Siege of Vienna in 1683, The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe, is a great account of one of the key moments of conflict between Christianity and Islam in Europe. … Read the full post »
I’m sure I must have read Brave New World years ago as there’s a copy on my bookshelf and I’m as likely to put an unread book on my shelves as I am to remove a book from my shelves and bin it. I trust my filing system over my memory. … Read the full post »
One of the political debates over UKIP is the question of whether it is primarily taking its support from disgruntled Conservatives or not. Revolt on the Right is an important, and conclusive, contribution to that debate. … Read the full post »
Is Jeremy Browne really a secret lover of state intervention and a sceptic of free markets, believing in big state spending, government economic planning and regular intervention in the market? … Read the full post »