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Book review: Roseland, by Judy Finnigan

25th November 2024 Going Postal 2419 Comments

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 1825 Comments

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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Killers of the Flower Moon, by David Grann

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The ‘Flower Moon’ is the term the Osage Indians of Oklahoma use to describe that time of year with a full moon in May when the plains around them suddenly burst forth in millions of [more…]

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Henry VIII’s Six Marriages

26th February 2024 Going Postal 2247 Comments

Like them or loathe them, royals seem to occupy a perennially-popular position in our national consciousness, and royal gossip even more so. We also seem fascinated as a country by our history, and by how [more…]

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Book review: Three Lives, by Nigel Parsons

9th December 2023 Going Postal 2706 Comments

According to amazon, ‘Nigel Parsons was born in an army camp in the South of England and spent many of his early years living in the remnants of the British empire, Malaysia, Singapore, Nepal, and [more…]

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Book Review: Across Atlantic Ice: the origin of America’s Clovis culture

14th August 2023 Going Postal 1935 Comments

Half an academic dry tome and half one of the most exciting books I’ve ever read, this book lays out the evidence for what is known as ‘the Solutrean hypothesis’. It’s basically trying to answer [more…]

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Sir John Vanbrugh – The Supreme Schemer

3rd May 2023 Going Postal 1921 Comments

Its walls and towers stare down – rather snootily it could be said – from Maze Hill, over the lesser buildings clustering round its feet on the edge of Greenwich Common. Opposite, Canary Wharf’s ghostly-looking, [more…]

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The Young H.G. Wells by Clare Tomalin. Viking: 2021

27th March 2023 Going Postal 2429 Comments

I’m sure many people are familiar with H.G. Wells’ science fiction output, with novels like The War of the Worlds, The Shape of Things to Come, The Invisible Man, The Sleeper Awakes (which some have [more…]

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Long memories at Clashanimud

28th July 2022 Going Postal 3476 Comments

We are often now asked to believe that European countries have no culture, or even any connection to their own pasts – that they are all lands of immigrants, blank sheets on which anything can [more…]

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