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Category: Literary Reviews

February 27, 2020

Review: As it Happened, Clement Attlee

Rating: 5 out of 5 It is a remarkable opportunity to find a man who has occupied every great office of state and yet…

February 25, 2020

Review: The Lost Continent, Bill Bryson

Rating: 5 out of 5 My main fault with this book is that it’s old — in many cases, this doesn’t matter, but especially…

February 20, 2020

Review: Blood River, Tim Butcher

Rating: 3 out of 5 The story of Stanley’s journey through Africa — beyond his discovery of Dr Livingstone but also through the Congo…

February 17, 2020

Review: Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Paul Theroux

Rating: “Not Sure” out of 5 / 😛 => Updated 0.5 out of 5 So… I really don’t know. Parts of this book I…

February 9, 2020

Review: Lord of Formosa, Joyce Bergvelt

Rating: 5 out of 5 In short, I think this ticks all the boxes. Quite possibly the closest thing from an European source I…

January 31, 2020

Review: Born a Crime, Trevor Noah

Rating: 5 out of 5 I had my eye on this book for a while before I took it up. This happened amidst the…

January 30, 2020

Review: Jedi Trial, David Sherman

Rating: 1 + 1 / 5 It is only my fond memories of reading this nigh 15 years ago that grant it the second…

January 23, 2020

Review: Into the Silence, Wade Davis

Rating: 3 out of 5 I found parts of this book perplexing — they did not belong. At the same time, other sections were…

January 21, 2020

Review: Archangel Rising, Evan Currie

Rating: 4 out of 5 I was able to finish this quite a bit quicker than the average period between two instalments in a…

January 19, 2020

Review: Archangel One, Evan Currie

Rating: 4 out of 5 I was delighted when I noticed that Mr Currie had started with another series in the Odyssey universe. Of…

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