I have often wished I could step back in time to see the Mersey in its golden years brimming with vessels setting …
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It is probably a little too late for you to read The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn’s Improbable Path to Power by Alex Nunns …
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My review of How to Travel Without Seeing by Andres Neuman is now up at Minor Literature[s]. A break-neck record of musings, …
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I must begin this Chaos and Caliphate review by saying that it is not always easy to read the book. Patrick Cockburn’s …
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Letters of Note review: Shaun Usher’s inspiring compilation
by John Maguireby John MaguireWho is it that writes these days? We all send emails, text messages, tweets and status updates on social media and become …
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I’ll Never Write My Memoirs review: DisGRACEfully Delicious
by John Maguireby John MaguireThe DisGRACEfully Delicious Grace Jones is a natural phenomenon. How can such a force of nature be contained and distilled within the …
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Man is the cruelest animal: review of Slave by Mende Nazer
by John Maguireby John MaguireA review of Slave by Mende Nazer, written for Anti-Slavery Day in 2015. Sometimes I think for all the advancements of the …
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I highlighted many sentences for this The Wisdom of No Escape review and you will too, when you go and read it, …
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Before reading this Sane New World review, imagine that your mind is like a computer, and you open a window, then another …
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Had I not read Emma Larkin’s wonderful Finding George Orwell in Burma in 2013, I wouldn’t have gone looking for further reading …

