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Book Review: The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton

23rd September 2021 Going Postal 0

This is the second novel by Stuart Turton, his first being the excellent The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, which I reviewed a few months ago. Turton has created another ‘whodunit’ story, this time on [more…]

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Book Review: “The Parasitic Mind” by Gad Saad

21st September 2021 Lugosi 0

I remember watching War Room and an interview with Gad Saad with his talk about campus wokeism, SJW’s, feminism and transgenderism. Saad is a Lebanese Jew who escaped from Lebanon along with his family and [more…]

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Book Review: Death Set to Music

30th August 2021 Going Postal 0

Très bien pour un cadeau gratuity! Having time to sit down and read a book is a bit of a luxury for me, as well as the fact that I don’t have the patience to [more…]

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Book Review: Commander

25th August 2021 Going Postal 0

Edward Pellew is a name which will be familiar to many who have read Giles Milton’s marvellous book, ‘White Gold’, about the Barbary white slave trade. That book recounts the life of Thomas Pellow, a [more…]

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“Earth’s Most Customer-Centric Company” – more fun and games with Amazon

16th August 2021 Going Postal 0

Being an independent author is a tough gig at the best times: not only do you have to write, edit, proof-read and typeset the manuscript without assistance (unless you have contacts willing to help), but [more…]

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Book Review: A State of Fear, Laura Dodsworth, Part 2

14th July 2021 Martin Mezger 0

It’s late June 2021; I have a brief face-to-face encounter with former Supreme Court Justice Lord Jonathan Sumption, at the Chalke Farm History Festival, near Salisbury, Wiltshire.  He is there to promote his latest work, [more…]

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Book Review: Imagining A Murder

1st July 2021 Going Postal 0

Once Upon a Moonlit Provence Night . . . author David Sedgwick reveals why he just had to write the story of a brutal, unsolved 1973 murder. Hands up who remembers the name Jeremy Cartland? [more…]

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Book Review: Silent Village, Robert Pike

1st July 2021 Roger Ackroyd 0

There have been a number of books on the disaster that overran Oradour-sur-Glane on Saturday June 10th 1944 but this is the first one that I have read that finely details the lives of the [more…]

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Book Review: A State of Fear, Laura Dodsworth

23rd June 2021 Martin Mezger 0

Mid-February, 2020: My wife and I stayed at our favourite hotel on the South Devon coast.  There was a woman there who was coughing a bit, actually quite a lot; we didn’t think too much [more…]

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