Discovering great non-fiction — hear the podcast, read the book

I have a tendency to be over-ambitious when it comes to non-fiction. I’ll pick up a tome on a subject … More

Book review: We Are Bellingcat by Eliot Higgins

We Are Bellingcat is a fascinating account of the history of investigative news site Bellingcat and how they pioneered using … More

I get pop-ups and notifications all day asking for my views on websites, purchases, even deliveries. I try to ignore … More

The Conjure-Man Dies is believed to be the first detective novel by an African-American author, published in 1932. Rudolph Fisher … More

Vera Kelly is posing as a Canadian student in Buenos Aires in 1966, but she is actually working for the … More

I wrote a couple of years ago about my conversion to audiobooks. At the time I was an enthusiastic subscriber … More

This is one of my occasional series where I share my thoughts on the whole of a book, so if … More

I thought it would be interesting to review these two histories together. They both cover the period of the Norman … More

The Coffinmaker’s Garden is the third in the Ash Henderson series but also features the ‘Misfit Mob’, the team of … More

Bear with me. You might think the answer is bleedin’ obvious, but I’ve been considering how and why I … More