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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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16 editions
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Black Sun Rising
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2020
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The Infernal Machine: A History of Terrorism
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2007
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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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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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Darwin’s Savages: Science, Race and the Conquest of Patagonia
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Obrigado Brazil!
After the last decade, the procession of dismal political events can sometimes seem unstoppable, to the point when you can feel punch-drunk and permanently braced for disaster. So when things go well, or at least not as badly as expected, it’s important to acknowledge these moments and draw what inspiration we can from them.
Let’s start with Brazil. After the first round of the presidential el
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What a rich, beautiful and crushing exploration of trans identity. Set in a the rapidly changing working class San Blas neighbourhood in the 80s/90s, it com" Read more of this review » |
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"This is an early novel by Dickens and is based around the events of the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots of 1780. At first I really couldn’t get into it - I listened to it- as everyone seemed to be called John and there was a LOT of what seemed to me to be"
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| Brilliant and compelling study of the strange case of Lucrecia de Leon, a young woman in late sixteenth century Spain who was tried for dreams that appeared to have a seditious and heretical content. Kagan does a great job in showing how this was pos ...more | |
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| Outstanding collection of essays, photographs and poems from writers and scholars 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 ...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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| 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 | |
“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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