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The HiddenTruth 

Author : Hans Schultz 

Published: 2023

Slightly alternative reality present day conspiracy idea around a secret aspect of electromagnetism which has been supressed

Synopsis 33 words


01 Mar '25  

1 Mar '25

fiction

Collected Stories of Arthur C Clarke 

Author : Arthur C Clarke 

From 1937 to 200. 104 short stories - some less than a page, some many pages.


22 Jan '25  

12 Jan '25

fiction

Animal Dreams 

Author : Barbara Kingsolver 

Published: 1991

Love story set in fictional Grace Arizona

Synopsis 158 words


16 Aug '24  

16 Aug '24

fiction

Deep Deception 

unlisted author

Published: 2022

The story ofspy-cops by 5 of the women deeply affected


29 Oct '23  

29 Oct '23

non-fiction

Demon Copperhead 

Author : Barbara Kingsolver 

Published: 2022

Growing up in Tennessee mountain fly-over country

Synopsis 68 words


22 Aug '23  

22 Aug '23

fiction

The Black Swan 
The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Author : Nassim Nicholas Taleb 

Published: 2007

Complex and oddly written, but with some compelling ideas about the nature of the unexpected


01 Sep '22

1 Sep '22

non-fiction

The Anarchy 
The Relentless Rise of the East India Company

Author : William Dalrymple 

Published: 2019

The rise of the East India Company from small trading organisation to the first global corporation more powerful than a coumtry


27 Feb '22  

27 Feb '22

non-fiction

Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay 

unlisted author

Published: 1956

Based on interviews with old people in a traditional Suffolk farming village (Braxhall, near Woodbridge) during the early 1950's - remembering the pre-mechanisation farming and village life.


19 Jan '22  

19 Jan '22

non-fiction

How to Blow Up a Pipeline 

Author : Andreas Malm 

Published: 2021

Not an instruction manual but an argument for doing it.

Synopsis 133 words


23 Nov '21  

23 Nov '21

non-fiction

A Bit of a Stretch 
The diaries of a prisoner

Author : Chris Atkins 

Published: 2020

Diary of 12 months spent as a prisoner in Wandsworth by the author

Synopsis 26 words


13 Oct '21  

13 Oct '21

non-fiction

Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency 
War Communism in the 21st Century

Author : Andreas Malm 

Published: 2020

Pulling together the strands of Covid19, ecological crisis and traditional marxist-lenninist analysis of the inherent contradictions of capitalism.


12 Apr '21

12 Apr '21

non-fiction