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

4th June 2025 Going Postal 0

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: 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: 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: 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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The Green Children of Woolpit

18th February 2025 Going Postal 0

Between Bury St Edmonds and Stowmarket in Suffolk lies the small village of Woolpit, named after the ‘wolf pits’ (or traps) which once were said to exist there. These traps took the form of rectangular [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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Book review: Roseland, by Judy Finnigan

25th November 2024 Going Postal 0

Warning: contains spoilers Judy Finnigan, former doyenne of daytime tv, has – as many celebs these days do – reinvented herself as a best-selling novelist. And, to be fair, her previous two books weren’t bad: [more…]

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Book review: Erotic Vagrancy, by Roger Lewis

14th October 2024 Going Postal 0

What a title, eh? I was a bit uncertain as to whether to order it from the library or not, in case they started to wonder what I was up to. Happily they didn’t (or [more…]

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