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Category: Non-Fiction

Posted on December 1, 2020

Interview with Paul Dowswell

I’ve known Paul Dowswell long enough to have forgotten exactly when we met.  It was at an Edinburgh International Book Festival when I was chairing…

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Posted on June 20, 2020

Absolutely Everything! by Christopher Lloyd

As the author himself admits, the title is perhaps a slight exaggeration but the book is a gallop through a history of the world. The…

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Posted on May 12, 2020

My Lockdown Books: Fifty Two

I met Mollie Hunter a couple of times: once at a book festival I organised to mark the Carnegie Medal, held at the original Carnegie…

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Posted on May 11, 2020May 11, 2020

What On Earth Books

What On Earth Books are new to me but Laura Smythe who works as part of the publicity team is not and she sent me…

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Posted on October 12, 2018

Wide Eyed Books

Wide Eyed Editions is aptly named.  Its books are truly full of wonder.  Even when they deal with subjects I'm not interested in, I love…

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Posted on August 30, 2018

Suffragette: the battle for equality by David Roberts

I'm fascinated by the early part of the twentieth century; it was such a turbulent time in British history.  The First World War aside, one…

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