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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
‘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…]
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…]
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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