List of Reviews

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Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin - Book Review 

Day of Reckoning by Jack Higgins - Book Review 

The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman - Book Review 

The Wish List by Eoin Colfer - Book Review 

Half Moon Investigations by Eoin Colfer - Book Review 

The Shadow in the North by Philip Pullman - Book Review

The Flood by Ian Rankin - Book Review 

The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman - Book Review 

A Good Hanging and Other Stories by Ian Rankin - Book Review 

A Question of Blood by Ian Rankin - Book Review 

Watchman by Ian Rankin - Book Review 

The Land of Green Plums by Herta Muller - Book Review 

2 States by Chetan Bhagat - Book Review 

The Tiger in the Well by Philip Pullman - Book review 

Hide & Seek by Ian Rankin - Book Review

The Tin Princess by Philip Pullman - Book Review 


Tooth & Nail by Ian Rankin - Book Review


South by Java Head by Alistair MacLean - Book Review

Blood Hunt by Ian Rankin - Book Review

King Solomon's Mines by Henry Rider Haggard - Book Review

Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene - Book Review

Caravan to Vaccares by Alistair MacLean - Book Review

A Search for the Historical Jesus by Fida Hassnain - Book Review

Plugged by Eoin Colfer - Book Review 

Strip Jack by Ian Rankin - Book Review

The Immortals of Meluha by Amish Tripathi - Book Review

The Secret of the Nagas by Amish Tripathi - Book Review

The Art of War by Sun Tzu - Book Review ?

Age of Hiblisk: A Story with a Soul by Sumukh Naik - Book Review

Love, Peace and Happiness: What more can you want by Rituraj Verma - Book Review

Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach - Book Review

The Bankster by Ravi Subramanian - Book Review

The Eagle has Landed by Jack Higgins – Book Review

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky - Book review

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer – Book Review

Artemis Fowl and the Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer – Book review

Artemis Fowl and the Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer – Book Review

When the Signal Turns Red by Jayanand Ukey - Book Review

The Artemis Fowl Files by Eoin Colfer – Book Review

Artemis Fowl and the Opal Deception by Eoin Colfer - Book Review

Sutherland's Rules by Dario Ciriello – Book Review

Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer – Book Review

The Interrogator’s Notebook by Martin Ott – Book Review

The Dark Pool by J.E Fishman – Book Review

The Oath of the Vayuputras by Amish Tripathi – Book Review

The 20th Century by Terry Deary – Book Review

Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer – Book Review

Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex by Eoin Colfer - Book Review

Cadaver Blues by J.E. Fishman – Book review

The Molina Curse by Charles L. Fields – Book Review


Doctor Bob by Lodewyk H.S. Van Mierop – Book Review


Before Terror Strikes by William Michael Seddon Sr. – Book Review

Damian Garcia: PhD Drug Smuggler by Chris Mosquera – Book Review

Killing Wall Street by Sanjay Sanghoee - Book Review

A Tricky Game by Seraphima Bogomolova – Book Reivew

The Istanbul Puzzle by Laurence O’Bryan – Book Review

The Shadow Throne by Aroon Raman – Book Review

I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai – Book Review

Number the Stars by Lois Lowry – Book Review

Capitol Limited by David R. Stokes – Book Review

Ajaya: Roll of the Dice by Anand Neelakantan – Book Review

Midnight’s Children by Sir Salman Rushdie – Book Review

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson – Book Review

Chosen by Howard Barber – Book review

Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Sir Salman Rusdhie – Book Review

Sultana’s Dream by Begum Rokheya Sakhawat Hossain – Book Review

Gorgeous Georgians by Terry Deary – Book Review

Luxor: Book of Past Lives by Julie Bettendorf – Book Review

Animal Farm by George Orwell - Book Review

The Death of Sheherzad by Intizar Husain – Book Review

The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid – Book Review

Hamlet by William Shakespeare - Book Review

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins - Book Review

Vicious Vikings by Terry Deary - Book Review

The Power of Compassion by The Dalai Lama - Book Review

East, West by Sir Salman Rushdie - Book Review

The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton - Book Review

The Scion of Ikshvaku by Amish Tripathi - Book Review

Dead Famous: Writers and their Tall Tales by Tracey Turner - Book Review

Ripples in the Pond by V. Kedar Rao - Book Review

Horrible Geography: Odious Oceans by Anita Ganeri - Book Review

The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg - Book Review

Horrible Histories: Frightful First World War by Terry Deary - Book Review

The Five People you Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom - Book Review

Pigs have Wings by PG Wodehouse - Book Review

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by JK Rowling - Book Review

Chalk Dust Stories by Pedro Freire Costa – Book review

The Kid Who Ran for President by Dan Gutman - Book Review

Horribly Famous: Darwin and other Seriously Super Scientists - Book Review

The Black Book by Ian Rankin – Book Review

Artemis Fowl and The Last Guardian - Book Review

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez - Book Review

The Incredible Banker by Ravi Subramanian - Book Review

Storm Warning by Jack Higgins - Book Review

She by Henry Rider Haggard - Book Review

Dirty Money by Ramesh S Arunachalam - Book Review

Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis – Book Review

The Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean – Book Review

Ticking Times by Pattabhi Ram – Book Review

The Kid Who Became President by Dan Gutman – Book Review

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli – Book Review

Adolf Hitler: A Life from Beginning to End by Hourly History – Book Review

British History in 50 Events by Hourly History – Book Review

The Ottoman Empire by Hourly History – Book Review

Leonardo da Vinci: A Life from Beginning to End by Hourly History - Book Review

English Civil War by Hourly History – Book Review

Celtic Mythology by Hourly History – Book Review

Mayan Civilization by Hourly History – Book Review

Ulysses Grant: A Life from Beginning to End by Hourly History – Book Review

The Secret by Rhonda Byrne – Book Review

Pirates: The Golden Age of Piracy by Hourly History – Book Review

Julius Caesar: A Life from Beginning to End by Hourly History – Book Review

Napoleon: A Life from Beginning to End by Hourly History – Book Review

Woodrow Wilson: A Life from Beginning to End by Hourly History – Book Review

French and Indian War by Hourly History - Book Review

American History in 50 Events by Hourly History - Book Review

Che Guevara: A Life From Beginning to End by Hourly History - Book Review

Titanic by Hourly History - Book Review

The Black Death by Hourly History - Book Review

Dead Famous: Horatio Nelson and his Victory by Philip Reeve - Book Review

Ancient Egypt by Hourly History - Book Review

Horrible Histories: The Woeful Second World War by Terry Deary - Book Review

Erwin Rommel: A Life From Beginning to End by Hourly History - Book Review

Black Easter by James Blish - Book Review

Charlemagne: A Life from Beginning to End by Hourly History - Book Review​

Dwight Eisenhower: A Life from beginning to end by Hourly History - Book Review

The Middle Ages by Hourly History - Book Review

Mossad by Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal - Book Review

Kids and Cubs by Olga Perovskaya - Book Review

The Mayflower by Hourly History - Book Review

Horrible Histories: The Awesome Egyptians by Terry Deary – Book Review

Frederick Douglass by Hourly History – Book Review

The Shadow of the Crescent Moon by Fatima Bhutto – Book Review

Haitian Revolution by Hourly History – Book Review

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Sir Salman Rushdie – Book Review

Harriet Tubman: A Life from Beginning to End by Hourly History – Book Review

Dead Famous: Spartacus and his Glorious Gladiators by Toby Brown – Book Review

Hittites by Hourly History – Book Review

India’s Muslim Spring by Hasan Suroor – Book Review

Louis XIV: A Life from Beginning to End by Hourly History – Book Review

Fear No Numbers by Jose Paul Moretto – Book Review

Easter Rising by Hourly History – Book Review

Suppandi: Fire Away by Tinkle – Book Review

Isambard Kingdom Brunel by Hourly History – Book Review

Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist – Book Review

Benedict Arnold: A Life from Beginning to End by Hourly History – Book Review

The Rise of Sivagami by Anand Neelakantan – Book Review

The Wars of the Roses by Hourly History – Book Review

Mortal Causes by Ian Rankin – Book Review

Mao Zedong: A Life from Beginning to End – Book Review

Murphy’s Law by Arthur Bloch – Book Review

George Patton: A Life from Beginning to End by Hourly History – Book Review

Indira: India’s Most Powerful Prime Minister by Sagarika Ghose – Book Review

Ancient Greece by Hourly History – Book Review

The Clicking of Cuthbert and Other Golf Stories by PG Wodehouse – Book Review

Elizabeth I: A Life from Beginning to End by Hourly History – Book Review

Joseph Stalin by Hourly History – Book Review

The Golden House by Sir Salman Rushdie – Book Review

The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor by Gabriel García Márquez – Book Review

Christopher Columbus: A Life from Beginning to End by Hourly History - Book Review

The Goat Thief by Perumal Murugan – Book Review

Nikola Tesla: A Life from Beginning to End by Hourly History – Book Review

James Monroe: A Life from Beginning to End by Hourly History – Book Review

Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin (#1 of A Song of Ice and Fire) – Book Review

Thomas Jefferson: A Life from Beginning to End by Hourly History – Book Review

Charles Darwin: A Life from Beginning to End by Hourly History – Book Review

Sita: Warrior of Mithila by Amish Tripathi – Book Review

John F. Kennedy: A Life from Beginning to End by Hourly History – Book Review

Turkish Gambit by Boris Akunin – Book Review

Winston Churchill: A Life from Beginning to End by Hourly History – Book Review

The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez – Book Review

Thomas Edison: A Life from Beginning to End by Hourly History – Book review

Wodehouse at the Wicket by PG Wodehouse – Book Review

Albert Einstein: A Life from Beginning to End by Hourly History – Book Review

Dead Famous: Alexander the Great and His Claim to Fame by Phil Robins – Book Review

The Art of Fully Living by Tal Gur – Book Review

The Battle of Thermopylae by In60Learning – Book Review

Asterix and the Golden Sickle (La Serpe d’or) by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo – Book Review

The Mexican – American War: A Divisive Expansion by in60Learning – Book Review

I Can See in the Dark by Karin Fossum – Book Review

Asterix and the Magic Carpet (Astérix chez Rahàzade) by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo – Book Review

Lucky Luke: Oklahoma Jim by Morris, Pearce et Jean Léturgie

French Revolution by Hourly History – Book Review

Luka and the Fire of Life by Sir Salman Rushdie – Book Review

Spanish Civil War by Hourly History – Book Review

Let it Bleed by Ian Rankin – Book Review

The Total Zone by Martina Navratilova and Liz Nickles – Book Review 

Pawan the Flying Accountant by Sorabh Pant – Book Review

Australian Memories by Ndèye Labadens – Book Review 

The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – Book Review

Child Soldiers by Indika Guruge – Book Review 

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini – Book Review

Dubliners by James Joyce – Book Review

Incidentally Creative by Vijay Subramaniam K – Book Review

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera – Book Review 

The Relic by Eça de Queiroz – Book Review

Moneyland by Oliver Bullough – Book Review

Soul Matters by Shreyas Shankar – Book Review

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Book Review

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari – Book Review

The Stranger (L’étranger) by Albert Camus – Book Review

The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick – Book Review

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari – Book Review

The Good Thief’s Guide to Amsterdam by Chris Ewan – Book Review

No One is too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg – Book Review +

God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens – Book Review

Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell – Book Review

How to do Nothing by Jenny Odell – Book Review

Letters of a French Soldier by Reymond Molle – Book Review

The American Crusade by Mark Spivak – Book Review

The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben – Book Review

Poor Economics by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo – Book Review

Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino – Book Review

White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo – Book Review

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins – Book Review

The Satanic Verses by Sir Salman Rushdie – Book Review

The Maid and the Queen: The Secret History of Joan of Arc by Nancy Goldstone – Book Review

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin – Book Review

Lifespan: Why we Age – and Why We Don’t Have To by David A. Sinclair – Book Review

The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson – Book Review

Don’t be Sad by Aidh al-Qarni – Book Review

Maybe You should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb – Book Review

Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo – Book Review

Intimations by Zadie Smith – Book Review

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling – Book Review

Witch Hunt by Ian Rankin – Book Review

The Book Collectors of Daraya (Les passeurs de livre de Daraya) by Delphine Minoui – Book Review

Atomic Habits by James Clear – Book Review

The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks – Book Review

The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel – Book Review

The Culture Map by Erin Meyer – Book Review

Shalimar the Clown by Sir Salman Rushdie – Book Review

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking by Susan Cain – Book Review

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo – Book Review

The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama – Book Review

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie – Book Review

At Night All Blood is Black (Frère d’âme) by David Diop – Book Review

Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber – Book Review

Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller – Book Review

About Looking by John Berger – Book Review

The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings #1) by JRR Tolkien – Book Review

Think Again by Adam Grant – Book Review

Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis – Book Review

Maus by Art Spiegelman – Book Review

Promised Land by Karel Schoeman – Book Review

Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville - Book Review

Aliss at the Fire by Jon Fosse – Book Review

The Shallows by Nicholas Carr – Book Review

I’ll be strong for you by Nasim Marashi – book review

The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald – Book Review

Secession and State Creation by James Ker-Lindsay and Mikulas Fabry

Monsters: A fan’s dilemma by Claire Dederer – Book Review

Glyph by Percival Everett – Book Review

The Architect’s Apprentice by Elif Shafak – Book Review

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom – Book Review

The Red-Haired Woman by Orhan Pamuk – Book Review

Me Grandad 'ad an Elephant by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer – Book Review

King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes – Book Review

The Pyre by Perumal Murugan – Book Review

The Dissident Club by Taha Siddiqui and Hubert Maury – Book Review

Strangers to Ourselves by Rachel Aviv – Book Review

Papillon by Henri Charrière – Book Review

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong – Book Review

Home Coming by John Bradshaw – Book Review

You Don’t Belong Here by Elizabeth Becker – Book Review

On Photography by Susan Sontag – Book Review

Paris isn’t dead yet by Cole Stangler – Book Review

Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake – Book Review

This is Vegan Propaganda by Ed Winters – Book Review

Millennial Vegan by Casey T Taft – Book Review

All is Silence by Manuel Rivas – Book Review

Talking to my Daughter by Yanis Varoufakis – Book Review

Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson – Book Review

The Power of the Powerless by Václav Havel – Book Review

Have a nice day,
Andy