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A good book: The Martian Ambassador.

If you’re a fan of steampunk fantasy, Alan K. Baker’s “The Martian Ambassador” is a real treat. If you don’t know what steampunk fantasy is..eh..it’s kind of like what would have happened if the...

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So… You’ve got a Kindle for Christmas…

What you need now are some reasonably priced satirical political thrillers to while away the long winter nights. Cough. Nudge.

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Great Books: Redshirts

It’s always a treat when you stumble across a writer whom you really enjoy and have never encountered before. John Scalzi is writing science fiction with a mischievous twist, and I recently listened to...

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A great book: The General-Charles De Gaulle and the France he saved.

One thing that really strikes an Irish reader of Jonathan Fenby’s excellent “The General” are the parallels between De Valera and the general. Both men built a political movement based on a set of...

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Self Publishing: Vanity publishing or the future of writing?

Ever since I was in my early teens, I wanted to be a published author. In fairness to myself, I had no illusions about being the next Hemingway or the next Fitzgerald, that was not the goal. I was...

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The future of the Atlantic Alliance?

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Now available on Amazon: “The Gorgeous War”

The beautiful people have it easier, don’t they? When the United States Supreme Court rules that people can be discriminated against because of their looks, it sets of a train of events no one could...

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A great book: “2030″ by Albert Brooks.

Within minutes of starting to read “2030: the real story of what happens to America” I knew I was going to love it. In fact, I’ll go one step further. This is my favourite novel of the last 12 months....

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A Superb Book: Seasons in the Sun

If there is one political history book you read this year, Dominic Sandbrook’s “Seasons in the Sun: The battle for Britain 1974-1979″ is the one. Sandbrook tells the story (from a centre-right...

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The Visual Society.

I recently published “The Gorgeous War”, a short story on Amazon.com about a product which allowed the great majority of people to be, effectively, beautiful. I wrote it primarily because it’s a...

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A great book for the political anoraks: Then Everything Changed.

Jeff Greenfield is a political reporter for CBS, and his book “Then Everything Changed” paints three What-If scenarios based on real life facts: That JFK was nearly killed in December 1960, before...

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Books worth reading: Dominion.

“Dominion” by CJ Sansom is set in a 1952 Britain which, following Lord Halifax’s accession to the premiership in 1940, has become a ”finlandised” satellite state of Nazi Germany. The plot, about...

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Great Books I’m reminding you to read: Hellraisers.

Roarin’, drinkin’ and shoutin’. I know I raved about this book before, but was rereading it, and it is well worth the read. That and the fact that when I first blogged about it, there was only me and...

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A good book worth reading: Alpha Dogs

Another one for the political junkies, “Alpha Dogs” details the rise and fall of Sawyer-Miller, one of the first political consultancy firms, and a firm that played a major role in bringing down both...

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A great book: The Martian by Andy Weir

Andy Weir’s “The Martian” is one of those books that I had never heard of when I first saw it on Audible, and after I read it could not understand why, because it’s great. It’s a techno rather than...

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Good books: Bryant and May by Christopher Fowler

I’ve recently started enjoying the “Bryant and May” series of books by Christopher Fowler, about two octogenarian detectives in the British Home Office’s Peculiar Crimes Unit. The books involve the two...

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Good reads.

I’m one of those people who takes ages to finish a book because I’m reading a couple at a time, but I finished a few I enjoyed (and show my rather eclectic tastes). Pat Leahy’s “Showtime”, about FF...

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A Great Movie (and book): The Day of The Jackal.

Frederick Forsyth’s 1971 novel “The Day of the Jackal” has already secured its place in novel history. The concept, about right-wing French fanatics hiring a professional assassin to murder President...

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The Ministry of Love. Four years on.

Four years ago today I published, as an eBook on Amazon, my first novel “The Ministry of Love”. Writing it taught me a huge amount, from the huge effort of writing a novel to the nightmare of typos and...

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An enjoyable book: The Dead Can Wait.

Robert Ryan’s “The Dead Can Wait” is the second of (so far) three novels about Sherlock Holmes’s friend Dr. John Watson in his later years, serving with British forces during the First World War....

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