Category: Book Reviews

Michel Barnier has written a unique story from the diary he kept whilst he was leader of the European Union’s team negotiating the treaty for the UK’s departure from the EU.

Grayling’s Law states that, “Anything that can be done will be done, if it brings advantage or profit to those who can do it.”

Journey to the Moon is a children’s book by Ed Goodwin. Charlotte Lebon reviews the three enjoyable stories.

A Tale of Four Funerals This novel, by a white South African, has just won the 2021 Booker prize. The setting is a farm outside Pretoria, owned by the Swart family. The plot is a series of four funerals, each occurring in a different decade of politics, 1980s to 2018. The ethical kernel is a […]

Juliet Blackburn reviews “Entangled Life”, Martin Sheldrake’s book about the fungi all around and within us, and upon which our life depends.

Charlotte Lebon breaks down history of the North-South split in England with a book review of ‘The Shortest History of England’ by James Hawes.

In “We Don’t Know Ourselves”, Finton O’Toole sets out to write the hidden history of an Ireland trapped by its own mythologies.

Nigel Beevor reviews Lord Adonis’ latest book, in which he assembles a “curious list of leaders” from articles he has written in the past.

The Secretary of the E. Kent branch of the European Movement reviews John Kampfner’s analysis on why the Germans do it better than the UK.

‘The Day I Died’ by Glen Peters is not a traditional crime novel – in such a corrupt society will it be possible to find the real murderer?