It is Christmas present buying time, so time for my Books of the Year 2018. I’ve been spoiled for choice this year, with a constant…
I read a couple of newspaper articles earlier this year about the extraordinary murder in New Zealand in 1954 of Honorah Parker (or Rieper as…
Did you get addicted to the podcast Serial two Autumns ago? If so, then you really need to read Adnan’s Story by Rabia Chaudry. Like…
Criminal: the truth about why people do bad things by my colleague Tom Gash is great and you should read it. It’s well written, persuasive and…
When lounging by the pool in Thailand on holiday in March, recovering from Pilates classes, I read an eclectic set of books. Half of a…
When I fancied a break from fiction and wasn’t quite ready to return to work-related book a few weeks ago I indulged in Murder at…
Midnight in Peking: The murder that haunted the last days of old China by Paul French had me completely gripped from start to finish. The latest…
If you want to know more about the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, three excellent books that tell personal stories of survival of the victims…
The death of Gitta Sereny a couple of weeks ago, and recently finishing watching the World at War on DVD, both reminded me of reading a…
Now before I start I should say that I studied post-colonial theory and criticism at university, am deeply interested in the appalling history of Britain’s…
I love reading and always have. I'm also a big fan of writing, hence writing a blog about reading. I read lots for both work and pleasure and thankfully the boundary between the two is nicely blurred.
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