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JFK: The Smoking Gun by Colin McLaren

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In this fascinating book, retired and highly decorated Australian homicide detective Colin McLaren brings his years of investigative […]

December 31, 2018 Other Stuff

1066: The Year of the Three Battles by Frank McLynn

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Most people regard 1066 as the year in which William, Duke of Normandy, invaded England in the last […]

December 31, 2018 Other Stuff

The Chinese Labour Corp by Mark O’Neill

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This is the astonishing account of an entirely forgotten episode of World War One – the over 100,000 […]

December 31, 2018 Other Stuff

Dirty Bertie: An English King Made in France by Stephen Clarke

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Written in a self-consciously chatty style that contains too many asides and diversions that try far too hard […]

December 31, 2018 Other Stuff

Chasing Shadows: The Life and Death of Peter Roebuck by Tim Lane and Elliot Cartledge

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To thousands of cricket lovers around the world, Peter Roebuck was known and admired as one of the […]

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Lost Everything by Brian Francis Slattery

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Vastly superior to Cormac McCarthy’s over-hyped and over-rated The Road, Lost Everything is a strange, fey, elegiac tale […]

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How The Hell Did This Happen? by P J O’Rourke

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P J O’Rourke is a noted satirist, and self-described social libertarian and constitutional conservative. O’Rourke believes in individual […]

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Haruki Murakami – Three Short Reviews

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Toru Watanabe and his friend Kizuki share their childhood and teenage years together until, inexplicably, at the age […]

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The Quest For El Cid by Richard Fletcher

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Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar is something of a cultural and nationalistic hero in Spain, portrayed as a noble, […]

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Gran Torino – a Film by Clint Eastwood

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It’s amazing where you can find Christ. In many respects, Clint Eastwood’s film Gran Torino is a bleak […]

December 31, 2018 Other Stuff

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