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Mal Warwick

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Mal Warwick has been reviewing books on his blog, www. malwarwickonbooks.com, since January 2010, typically posting three to five reviews per week. He is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and the Northern California Book Reviewers and serves on the board of directors of the Bay Area Book Festival. He is also a member of the Author’s Guild and has been a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America since the 1970s.

Mal’s most recent book is Hell on Earth: What We Can Learn from Dystopian Fiction (July 2017). He is the author, co-author, or editor of 20 other books, including The Business Solution to Poverty: Designing Products and Services for Three Billion New Customers and the best-selling fundraising text, How t
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A satirical take on British politics at the top

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Meet the Fitzmaurices, a wealthy, aristocratic British family with more than their share of buried secrets. But, like most secrets, they can’t remain hidden forever. And as they come to light, the family unravels. But the roots of their exposure lie far in the past at an elite “public school” called Burtonbury. There, a scholarship boy named Martin Gilmour meets Ben Fitzmaurice and Andrew Jarvis,

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A revisionist history of how humanity built cities and civilization

Biologically modern humans have roamed the Earth for some 300,000 years. Yet what we refer to as history dwells on the past 5,000 years or so, since writing was invented in ancient Su
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A kidnapping in a compelling thriller set in an exotic location

Ariel Pryce awakens to a sunny day in Lisbon only to find her new husband, John Wright, missing. After hours waiting for him to turn up, it’s clear something’s amiss. There’s no message,
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River of Smoke by Amitav Ghosh
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A brilliant novel about the war between Britain and China that set the stage for revolution

Balzac (and lots of people after him) thought that “Behind every great fortune there is a crime.” Nowhere is that aphorism more baldly pictured than in the 19t
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Troublesome Young Men by Lynne Olson
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How a courageous group of young Tories ousted Neville Chamberlain

You may have the impression that Winston Churchill stood alone in warning England of the rising Nazi menace. Many histories of the period paint that picture. But it’s not accurate. In f
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A Purple Place for Dying by John D. MacDonald
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A murder and a cover-up jumpstart this classic thriller

From 1964 to 1985 a World War II veteran officer and Harvard MBA named John D. MacDonald published a series of 21 remarkable short crime novels centered on a “Florida beach bum” named Travis McGe
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The Spy in the Archive by Gordon Corera
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His bosses never suspected this failed spy could nearly destroy the KGB

Since early in the 19th century, the men who rule Russia have relied on secret intelligence to preserve their hold on power. Tsar Nicholas I started it all in 1826. The Third Sect
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Girls, Crimes, and the Ruling Body by Barry R. Ziman
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Skullduggery and murder in the corridors of power

Here’s a story that will awaken every cynical bone in your body that resonates to the waves of political corruption we see every day in the news. In Girls, Crimes, and the Ruling Body, veteran politica
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This Vast Enterprise by Craig Fehrman
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Exploring the vast lands that Jefferson bought from Napoleon

Historians usually credit President Theodore Roosevelt with launching the United States as an imperial power. But no president did more to establish the country as a power to be reckoned wit
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England's first female medical examiner investigates a serial killer

As a rule, I’m no fan of serial killer stories. The phenomenon is rare and heavily overused by authors of mystery novels. But author Patrice McDonough brings a new perspective to the
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