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Philip Norman – Mick Jagger
09 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Fifty years a star. Gracefulness incarnate. Irresistable to women. Vain and arrogant, perhaps, but with so much to boast of. But enough about Tim. Mic...
Iain M Banks – The Hydrogen Sonata
17 Oct 2012
Contributed by Lukas
The Gzilt came close to being one of the founding civilisations of the Culture, but they have come to the point where they are ready to Sublime to the...
Christopher Fowler – Bryant and May and the Invisible Code
21 Sep 2012
Contributed by Lukas
A woman dies for no apparent reason in a church in Fleet Street. A pair of children were playing Witch-Hunter nearby and they placed a curse on her. T...
Alom Shaha – The Young Atheist’s Handbook
13 Aug 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Richard Dawkins has said that there is no such thing as a Muslim child, only the child of Muslim parents. Saint Richard’s admirers are wont to chara...
Alwyn W Turner – Things Can Only Get Bitter
07 Apr 2012
Contributed by Lukas
The writer Alwyn Turner has spotted a fascinating statistical anomaly and it is this: the generation to which he belongs has produced significantly ...
Nicholas Wapshott – Keynes Hayek – The Clash That Defined Modern Economics
12 Mar 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Can government action fix a broken economy? Eighty years ago John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek arrived at diametrically opposed conclusions. Far...
Larry Watson – American Boy
17 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Larry Watson is better known in his native America than in the UK, but Tim has been a fan since Larry’s first novel Montana 1948. Eight novels have ...
Chris Mullin – A Walk-On Part: Diaries 1994-1999
14 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Political diaries can be turgid and self-serving or they can be witty and revealing. Chris Mullins diaries are firmly in the second category. The fi...
Alwyn W Turner – The Man Who Invented The Daleks, The Strange Worlds Of Terry Nation
25 May 2011
Contributed by Lukas
You may remember Survivors and Blake’s Seven. You may even remember that they were created by Terry Nation. But Terry Nation’s immortality will al...
Steve Richards – Whatever It Takes
13 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
When the dust settles we will observe that more books have been written about New Labour than about any other British administration, yes, including M...
Russell Hoban – Angelica Lost And Found
01 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Russell Hoban defies comparison with other writers. There is nobody else writing books like his. If his readership is select, he is nonetheless one of...
Iain Banks – Surface Detail
23 Sep 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Is Iain Banks our best novelist? If our criteria are muscular prose, brilliant plotting and an apparently effortless manipulation of character then he...
Iain Banks – Transition
23 Sep 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Iain Banks is one of the most successful and productive British novelists of his generation; a writer of apparently boundless invention and self-confi...
Alwyn Turner – Crisis, What Crisis – Britain in the 1970s
29 Aug 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Britain in the 1970’s is revisited in vivid technicolour by Alwyn Turner in his new book, “Crisis, What Crisis?”. Tim Haigh visited Alwyn at hom...
Lord David Owen – In Sickness And In Power – illness in heads of government during the last 100 years
15 Aug 2008
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Haigh visited Lord David Owen, sometimes known as Doctor Death in a previous life, to discuss his new book, “In Sickness And In Power- illness i...