Here are links to recent book reviews I’ve published on this website. Look out for more soon.

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May 24, 2026

As the title suggests, it’s about Basil Boothroyd’s (mis) adventures as a public speaker. In an anecdote I found particularly amusing …

May 24, 2026

May 15, 2026

Review: The Mathematician's Library - two reviews in one!

May 15, 2026

This wide-ranging book takes in probability, fractals, astronomy, Babbage, Lovelace, and a host of other areas and people.

May 15, 2026

May 15, 2026

Review: Hotel Exile -- two reviews in one!

May 15, 2026

You settle down to read, and the subject of this particular vignette could be you: a teacher, a student, a mother, a brother.

May 15, 2026

Review: Weimar -- two reviews in one!

May 15, 2026

Weimar, the birthplace of the optimistic but short-lived republic of the same name, a place called “home” by Goethe, Liszt and Nietzsche and a mere eight kilometres from Buchenwald.

May 15, 2026

May 15, 2026

Review: Verb Your Enthusiasm: Two reviews in one!

May 15, 2026

No book about the craft of writing seems complete without a stern chapter on the importance of eschewing adverbs and adjectives - but what to put in their place?

May 15, 2026

April 15, 2026

Two previews

April 15, 2026

In this post I preview two books which you may be interested in. One is a series of autobiograohical stories, beautifully written, while the other comprises six writers explaining why they did what they did in their short story included in the book.

April 15, 2026

April 14, 2026

Mini-essay: Two books reviewed -- Weimar, Hotel Exile

April 14, 2026

I’m reviewing these together partly because I have a separate review of each one being published in Teach Secondary magazine next month, and partly because they are both concerned with the same subject matter: the Nazi era.

April 14, 2026

April 10, 2026

Review: The Bengali Book of Short Stories -- two reviews in one!

April 10, 2026

I submitted my review of this book to Teach Secondary magazine, an educational magazine in the UK. The first review is what the magazine published. The second one is what I actually wrote! In substantive terms there is little difference between the two, but you may find it interesting to see what the editor altered.

April 10, 2026