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Category: Literary Reviews

February 8, 2021

Review: The Three Paradises, Robert Fabbri

Rating: 4 out of 5 This is a solidly enjoyable fiction that will introduce the reader to many of the diadochi, an era normally…

February 4, 2021

Review: Spain, Robert Goodwin

Rating: 2 out of 5 I am appalled. Appalled! I’m not quite sure how Mr Goodwin managed to sell this, as this is neither…

February 3, 2021

Review: Ryoma! Vol IV, Ryotaro Shiba

Rating: 5 out of 5 It is to my regret that while I bought this the day it came out, I only now took…

January 24, 2021

Review: Holy Ground, Evan Currie

Rating: 2 out of 5 I’m a fan of Mr Currie’s Odyssey universe. Yet, it looks as if with every new instalment the story…

January 23, 2021

Review: Why We Sleep, Matthew Walker

Rating: 5 out of 5 It’s not difficult to think of a book that’s merely important (important in what way and to whom?), but…

January 12, 2021

Review: The Invention of Nature, Andrea Wulf

Rating: 2 out of 5 Ms Wulf’s look into von Humboldt struck me first as an innovative piece that sheds light on someone very…

January 5, 2021

Review: Providence Lost, Paul Lay

Rating: 4 out of 5 I kind of stumbled into this post-Civil War military & political history, or, at least, it wasn’t my intention…

January 5, 2021

Review: Dictatorland, Paul Kenyon

Rating: 5 out of 5 The scope and detail in this book already give it the highest rating. However, Mr Kenyon’s way with the…

December 31, 2020

Review: The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, Steve Brusatte

Ratings: 3 out of 5 It’s not often that a book takes me a year and a half to complete. When one does, there’s…

December 30, 2020

Review: Troy, Stephen Fry

Rating: 4 out of 5 Mr Fry’s take on the Iliad, and the ending of the siege of Troy, was most enjoyable. The author’s…

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