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Book Review: The Wrong Hands by Mark Billingham

14th May 2025 Going Postal 0

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 0

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 0

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 0

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 0

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 0

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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Book review: Values, Voice and Virtue: the new British politics, by Matt Goodwin

4th March 2025 Going Postal 0

Matthew James Goodwin is a political commentator and former academic, most recently Professor of Politics at the University of Kent which he left in the summer of 2024. Unlike most of his contemporaries, he reached [more…]

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Book Review: “Politics on the Edge” by Rory Stewart

19th February 2025 Going Postal 0

Like many on this blog, I’ve been in awe of AWS in his watching and reporting of Question Time each week so that we didn’t have to, and Powers’ indefatigable commentary each morning of GMB, [more…]

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Book review: The Man From Berlin, by Luke McCallin

3rd February 2025 Going Postal 0

‘Amidst the chaos of World War II, in a land of brutality and bloodshed, one death can still change everything …’ So runs the blurb on the front cover, and it’s fair to say it’s [more…]

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