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"From Anglo-Saxon vocabulary to Victorian porn, this history of lust leaves little to the imagination. ..."

"The unvarnished truth about one of the most fascinating figures of the Old West...."

"a stunningly written travel book..."

"The book reads like a fascinating real-life detective story..."

"It must be the most thorough-going account of Mengele’s life available to date..."

"...what Murphy understands best is the obsessive mindset of an unrepentant deadline-junkie..."

"an angry and unforgettable novel..."

"An essential account of the ideologies that have shaped the region..."

"an important and crackingly good read..."

"a lively, attention-holding account of what is surely the strangest decade in British history..."

"An information-packed analysis of Asia’s regional tensions..."

"as fresh and engaging as you are likely to find..."

"shows how western interpretations of yoga have overlooked its complex history..."

"a sweeping historical saga..."

"However polemically useful it may be, Munif’s rejection of geopolitical analysis leaves him unable to ask or answer vital questions..."

"A disturbing memento of past warfare..."

"Allied airmen stoically carried out a strategy now judged immoral. Yet they were heroes..."

"The reader lets out a sort of strangled cheer when we reach the moment in April 1945 when Mussolini is shot and strung up in Milan. ..."

"his treatment is engaging..."

"he shows great patience in unravelling the endless sequence of plots and counter-plots that have gone before..."

"(a) careful reconstruction of an understudied footnote in Jamaican history..."

"A Belfast writer provides an undogmatic, wry and wise portrait of Northern Ireland as Britain prepares to leave the EU..."

"Engrossing new work takes informed historical look at the nation’s transition from dictatorship..."

"At times it's a little dry ... but the story he has to tell is so strange and funny that his deadpan style actually suits it rather well..."