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Review: Where All Good Flappers Go – Essential Stories of the Jazz Age, Selected and Introduced by David M. Earle

Aug 17, 2024By Eric Lee

This a wonderful book. No, really. I was a bit concerned as I don’t always enjoy anthologies, and the only author names I recognised were F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzerald, and Dorothy Parker. But that…Read more…

Aug 17, 2024Eric Lee

Ukraine can still win this war

Aug 12, 2024By Eric Lee

For some time now, the consensus in the mainstream media in Britain and elsewhere has been that Ukraine has effectively lost the war with Russia. Slowly and methodically, Russian troops have taken village after village…Read more…

Aug 12, 2024Eric Lee

Review: The Eagle Has Landed, by Jack Higgins

Aug 9, 2024By Eric Lee

I recently saw (again) the film, starring Michael Caine and the late Donald Sutherland, and this awakened in me an interest in reading the original book. There were a couple of pleasant surprises. For one…Read more…

Aug 9, 2024Eric Lee

Review: Active Measures – The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare, by Thomas Rid

Aug 7, 2024By Eric Lee

This thoroughly-researched, engaging book is full of stories that I didn’t know, showing the vast extent of disinformation campaigns over the last century or so — and not only done by the Russians. Rid has…Read more…

Aug 7, 2024Eric Lee

Review: The Giving Code – How charities can increase their unrestricted income, by Rachel Collinson

Aug 7, 2024By Eric Lee

Rachel Collinson knows a lot about how non-profit organisations and charities can improve their fundraising and campaigning — but she only shares some of it in this short book. This is understandable because she earns…Read more…

Aug 7, 2024Eric Lee

Review: ‘Salem’s Lot, by Stephen King

Aug 7, 2024By Eric Lee

This is an early book by Stephen King and when I read that it was his take on Bram Stoker’s Dracula, I thought — why not? But it’s not King’s best effort (he improved as…Read more…

Aug 7, 2024Eric Lee

Serbia: Stop union-busting at Yura

Aug 7, 2024By Eric Lee

At first glance, Serbia seems like a great place for trade unions. Under the country’s labour law, a union need only sign up 15% of the workforce in order to compell employers to bargain collectively….Read more…

Aug 7, 2024Eric Lee

Review: Why We Read – 70 Writers on Non-Fiction, edited by Josephine Greywoode

Aug 1, 2024By Eric Lee

This very short book has some real gems in it. Some quite famous authors and historians explain not only why they read but also why they buy books, and why they write. And while so…Read more…

Aug 1, 2024Eric Lee

Review: Autocracy, Inc. – The Dictators Who Want to Run the World, by Anne Applebaum

Jul 30, 2024By Eric Lee

Anne Applebaum is a first-rate historian, a very good writer and a campaigner for human rights and democracy. And this is a very good and important book. But — while its description of the evils…Read more…

Jul 30, 2024Eric Lee

Review: Dead Fall, by A.K. Turner

Jul 28, 2024By Eric Lee

This book, the 4th in the Cassie Raven series, is as good as the others, which is saying a lot. Cassie is a twenty-something mortuary technician in Camden, a neighbourhood in north London. Her “special…Read more…

Jul 28, 2024Eric Lee

Review: The Warlock Effect, by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman

Jul 21, 2024By Eric Lee

This book combines two things that I enjoy reading about very much: magic and espionage. And it does a good job with both — especially the magic. (One of the authors worked closely with Derren…Read more…

Jul 21, 2024Eric Lee

Did Labour win?

Jul 10, 2024By Eric Lee

American astronauts did not set foot on the Moon in July 1969. In 2001, the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City were brought down by a controlled explosion, and not…Read more…

Jul 10, 2024Eric Lee

Review: Esperanto and Its Rivals – The Struggle for an International Language, by Roberto Garvía

Jul 8, 2024By Eric Lee

In this well-written and fascinating short book, Roberto Garvía focusses almost entirely on Esperanto’s rivals among the other “international auxiliary languages”. There are two of these that matter Volapük and Ido, both long-forgotten except by…Read more…

Jul 8, 2024Eric Lee

Review: You Like It Darker, by Stephen King

Jul 4, 2024By Eric Lee

Stephen King is a superb writer of short stories, even if he is better known as a novelist. And to call all the stories in this hefty, nearly 500 page book, “short” stories is a…Read more…

Jul 4, 2024Eric Lee

Review: How Not to Write a Novel, by Sandra Newman and Howard Mittelmark

Jul 1, 2024By Eric Lee

A clever and witty book filled with examples of things NOT to do if you’re writing your first novel. And while the authors insist that unlike other writing books, they are telling you about sure-fire…Read more…

Jul 1, 2024Eric Lee

Review: The Wrong Hands, by Mark Billingham

Jun 30, 2024By Eric Lee

This, the second book in Mark Billingham’s new Blackpool-based crime series, continues an unbroken trend of superb story-telling, mixed with humour and characters you actually care about. DS Declan Miller sounds at first like a…Read more…

Jun 30, 2024Eric Lee

Trump and the Teamsters

Jun 25, 2024By Eric Lee

Last week Donald Trump made an extraordinary announcement on his Truth Social platform. Trump was announced that Sean O’Brien, president of the 1.3 million member Teamsters union, had agreed to address the Republic National Convention…Read more…

Jun 25, 2024Eric Lee

Review: Jack and Jill, by James Patterson

Jun 23, 2024By Eric Lee

The third book in the long-running Alex Cross series seems a good place to take a break. While the story has a good beginning, by the end it becomes an excuse for the author to…Read more…

Jun 23, 2024Eric Lee

90 years later, a new Popular Front is born

Jun 19, 2024By Eric Lee

It is exactly ninety years since the French Socialist and Communist parties began to create the Popular Front, which dominated French politics in the mid-1930s. The danger then was the threat of the far Right…Read more…

Jun 19, 2024Eric Lee

Review: Kiss the Girls, by James Patterson

Jun 18, 2024By Eric Lee

The second Alex Cross novel was actually made into a Hollywood film before the first one was. And maybe that’s a good thing, because it’s a better, tighter book. Cross is becoming an increasingly interesting…Read more…

Jun 18, 2024Eric Lee
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