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Matthew’s 2025 Year in Books
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The Devils of Cardona
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2016
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13 editions
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الدين والدم: إبادة شعب الأندلس
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2009
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15 editions
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Black Sun Rising
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2020
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9 editions
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The Infernal Machine: A History of Terrorism
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2007
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16 editions
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Fortress Europe: Dispatches from a Gated Continent
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2012
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11 editions
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Sherman's Ghosts: Soldiers, Civilians, and the American Way of War
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2015
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4 editions
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The Savage Frontier: The Pyrenees in History and the Imagination
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2018
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2 editions
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The Emperor of Seville (The Bernardo de Mendoza Mysteries Book 2)
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My Father's House: In Search of a Lost Past
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2014
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3 editions
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Darwin’s Savages: Science, Race and the Conquest of Patagonia
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2026 FIFA
As most people will know, today is the opening ceremony of the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Mexico, the United States and Canada. I don’t watch much football, but I do make an exception for the World Cup, even though over the years there have been quite a few World Cups that I shouldn’t have watched.
The most egregious example would be Argentina 1978 - a political and moral nightmare in which some g
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| Having torn through Good People, I’ve been on a bit of a Marcus Sakey jag. This one didn’t disappoint. The same taut-as-a-bow string prose, the same tension, the same atmosphere of menace and violence. Like Good People, this outing picks up the theme ...more | |
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| Five stars for this violent, scorching thriller that you just can’t look away from till it’s over. When Tom and Anna Reed stumble on some hidden money when a tenant dies of a heart attack, they think they’ve found a magic solution to their problems. ...more | |
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| Despite its glowing reviews, and my appreciation of Sakey’s narrative talents, I have to say that this did not impress me much. Firstly, I found the lead characters very two dimensional and unengaging. I don’t have to like the characters in a crime n ...more | |
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| Despite its glowing reviews, and my appreciation of Sakey’s narrative talents, I have to say that this did not impress me much. Firstly, I found the lead characters very two dimensional and unengaging. I don’t have to like the characters in a crime n ...more | |
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| Having torn through Good People, I’ve been on a bit of a Marcus Sakey jag. This one didn’t disappoint. The same taut-as-a-bow string prose, the same tension, the same atmosphere of menace and violence. Like Good People, this outing picks up the theme ...more | |
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| Having torn through Good People, I’ve been on a bit of a Marcus Sakey jag. This one didn’t disappoint. The same taut-as-a-bow string prose, the same tension, the same atmosphere of menace and violence. Like Good People, this outing picks up the theme ...more | |
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| Outstanding collection of essays, photographs and poems from writers and scholar from different disciplines, reflecting on the colonial/imperial construction of the desert as an ‘empty’ space and the opposite of civilisation. These essays tell very d ...more | |
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| Five stars for this violent, scorching thriller that you just can’t look away from till it’s over. When Tom and Anna Reed stumble on some hidden money when a tenant dies of a heart attack, they think they’ve found a magic solution to their problems. ...more | |
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| Sharp, taut and violent tale from 1972 France. A motley bunch of anarchist desperadoes kidnap the American ambassador for no particular reason, except that he is the American ambassador. They don’t even make any demands. It all unravels very quickly. ...more | |
“even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families, appealing to me for sons, husbands, and fathers . . . as far as I know, all the fighting men of our army want peace; and it is only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated (friend or foe), that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation.”
― Sherman's Ghosts: Soldiers, Civilians, and the American Way of War
― Sherman's Ghosts: Soldiers, Civilians, and the American Way of War
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