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For a project I have on the go I've been dipping back into Caesar's commentaries. Once again, I am struck by the immediacy of the ob...

The recent death of Gregg Allman prompted me to go back and read Galadrielle Allman's brilliant and moving Please be with Me , about her...

Picture borrowed from The World of Patrick O'Brian website. As a kid I used to enjoy reading tales of adventure and derring-do on ...

Author of the month for March is Thomas Hardy. As part of my bookshop browsing in NZ I was fortunate to turn up some excellent secondhand b...

My author of the month is Shelby Foote. I recently finished his three volume treatment of the American Civil War and found it very impressiv...