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Book Review: The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton

26th June 2025 Going Postal 2439 Comments

The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton is a masterful blend of dystopian sci-fi and classic murder mystery. Set on an idyllic Greek island, the last refuge in a world [more…]

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Book Review: An Immigrant’s Love Letter to the West, by Konstantin Kisin

4th June 2025 Going Postal 2540 Comments

When you live in a country, it is all to easy to see all its faults and shortcomings in horribly clear HD, and much of the national conversation can revolve round these points – what [more…]

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Book Review: Concorde by Mike Bannister

19th May 2025 Going Postal 2071 Comments

Introduction In response to Swiss Bob’s lack of articles, I have dashed this out, instead of a fuller version I had planned.  In short, I heartily recommend Mike Bannister’s book ‘Concorde’, which I listened to [more…]

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Book Review: The Wrong Hands by Mark Billingham

14th May 2025 Going Postal 2060 Comments

Following on from the first book in the series (The Last Dance), The Wrong Hands picks up the story of Detective Sergeant Declan Miller, the flippant and somewhat unorthodox individual. The story kicks off with [more…]

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Book review: Custer’s Trials, by T.J. Stiles

6th May 2025 Going Postal 2252 Comments

Writing another biography of Custer (1839-1876) is, as Stiles says, a bit like walking round Grand Central Station trying to find a piece of floor someone hasn’t already stepped on. Such is the fascination with [more…]

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Book Review: Soldaten, ‘On fighting, killing and dying’

30th April 2025 Going Postal 1842 Comments

This book, originally published in 2012, is based on the discovery of transcripts of covert surveillance of German prisoners of war in WW2, found initially in archives in Great Britain and latterly in archives in [more…]

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Book review: The Wager, by David Grann

28th April 2025 Going Postal 2295 Comments

Every so often, a book comes along which just knocks your socks off. You want to recommend it to everybody and buy it for all your friends. This is one of those! The Wager is [more…]

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Book review: The Blue House, by Nigel Parsons

21st April 2025 Going Postal 1918 Comments

This is the second book by this author to be reviewed on GP – you can find my review of his previous novel, Three Lives (linky). Written with both heart and head, The Blue House [more…]

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Book Review: Dancers At The End Of Time by Michael Moorcock

14th April 2025 Going Postal 1783 Comments

This article will be a short review of quite possibly my favourite romance novel. But before we get to the soppy bits, we need to set the scene by wading through some good ol’ blood [more…]

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