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Recently Read Crime Fiction

Note: There has been, and will be, a flurry of book reviews on this blog at the moment. In part because I’ve suddenly been reading a...

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The Cult of We: WeWork and the Great Start-Up Delusion

I’m not 100% sure when I became fascinated with the office sub-leasing business WeWork, but it was certainly ahead of its mid-2019...

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An Ugly Truth by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang

For a long time now, Facebook has had a serious problem with some of its users – myself included – a lack of trust. It’s...

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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

If there is one non-fiction title I’ve been looking forward to reading for a while, it is this definitive story of the Sackler family...

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The Premonition by Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis’ books are always very readable as he has a knack of navigating you through sometimes very complicated stories. In The...

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Nightshade by Annalena McAfee

Eve Laing is an artist who works in her London studio on works based around very accurate reproductions of flowers. But she is perhaps most...

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The Chateau by Catherine Cooper

The Chateau is the new thriller from Catherine Cooper, who previously wrote the very popular The Chalet. This is basically more of the...

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The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox

The Absolute Book is a complex and sprawling fantasy novel of a very unusual sort. And it’s all the better for being so. To try to...

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How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates

A year or so ago I read The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells, which laid out in often horrific details, the kinds of things that...

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Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

Having previously read and enjoyed Convenience Store Woman, it wasn’t a hard decision to pick up Earthlings. As with the previous novel,...