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Book Review: Minifigure Monarchs: A History of Great Brits in little bricks

5th January 2026 Going Postal 0

Written by Andrew Redfern, and launched as a Kickstarter project in July 2025, Minifigure Monarchs was successfully funded within 24 hours. At 336 pages this hardback was a definite addition to my Christmas list!  It’s [more…]

Drinking

Cocktails At Six

24th December 2025 Going Postal 0

The nights have drawn in and once more we are approaching that strange time of year when apparently everyone is going to parties, or in my case not. So, if any of you are going [more…]

Biography

Book Review: My Life With Rock N’ Roll People by Mike Nicholls

15th December 2025 Going Postal 0

Swiss Bob kindly sent me a copy of this book to review – so here you go. I had expected the book to be a series of articles that Nicholls had previously published in the [more…]

16th Century

Tracy Borman: Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I

8th December 2025 Going Postal 0

It is always a bonus when a book takes one or more well-known figures and makes you see them in an entirely new light. Tracy Borman has achieved just this with her dual biography of [more…]

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Alanbrooke’s War Diaries edited by Arthur Bryant

12th November 2025 Going Postal 0

I never really had a deep interest in WWII, my knowledge was sketchy and based on WWII films.  Of course, I had imbibed that Hitler was the devil incarnate and Churchill was a national hero.  [more…]

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Anger Is An Energy, by John Lydon

4th November 2025 Going Postal 0

‘They put a hot wire to my head Cos of the things I did and said They made these feelings go away Model citizen in every way’ (From Anger Is An Energy, the song) Given [more…]

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How Not To Be A Political Wife, by Sarah Vine

20th October 2025 Going Postal 0

Here it is, hot off the press – a peek straight into the heart of Cameroonian Britain, through the eyes of a true insider. Sarah Vine was married to Michael Gove throughout the whole débacle, [more…]

16th Century

Stories from the Age of Sail

22nd September 2025 Going Postal 0

I was going to call this article ‘Wooden Ships and Iron Men’ but then I discovered that Avalon Hill beat me to it about fifty years ago, so ‘Stories from the Age of Sail’ will [more…]

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Book Review: I Survived, by Victoria Cilliers

3rd September 2025 Going Postal 0

The recent tragic suicide by parachute jump of  experienced skydiver Jade Damarell, widely reported in the media, brought to mind the Cilliers case of a few years ago, which Victoria Cilliers goes into in this [more…]

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