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“Everything achieved under slavery was being destroyed by freedom.” Upon this crucial sentence hangs Colin Thubron's In Siberia . Soviet...

My appetite whetted by Paul Theroux, I knew the next book I'd have to reach for would be  The Big Red Train Ride,  Eric Newby's acco...

While pondering which book to read next, my gaze swept across the bookshelf in the front room; one book seemed to be just slightly sticking ...

Part I of the review here . It is the nature of Homo sapiens to be curious – to ask the most fundamental questions regarding the nature of ...

Zbigniew Szydło's book about the alchemical times of Michał Sędziwoj (1566-1636), known across Europe by his Latinised name, Sendivogius...

One of the most fascinating books I have is a present (as with many of the most thought-provoking books in my collection) from my brother. A...

For anyone living in the Polish-British space, this book is an absolute must-read. A collection of 38 essays written by Poland's former ...

"Dogs fetch. Cats bring. Therein lies the difference." An example of Jacek Koba's witty sayings, a few of which have ended up ...

Threaded through Plato's treatise about the State are many references to God and the Afterlife. It is, after all, natural to assume that...

The Republic is remarkable for the light it sheds on the human condition. This 2,400-year-old treatise about making society – made up of fla...

Phew! That was hard work. Four hundred and sixteen pages. I finished this morning, having started reading it over two months ago. And this i...

There's never a good time to write a contemporary history. Historical narratives need closure. Loose ends need tying up, threads need to...