Shari Franke understands the appeal of her family’s story. As she puts it herself  “… a beautiful God-fearing American family, turning their rags into riches on Youtube, only to be wrenched apart in a dramatic turn of events featuring demon possession, doomsday-prepper cults, with lesbian undertones”. But in The House of My Mother, Shari Franke […]

The eighth instalment in Rory Clements’ Tom Wilde series delves into a whole new world as the threat of Nazism is replaced by the threat of Soviet Communism.  Not for the first time in a Tom Wilde spy thriller, the story begins with very real and dangerous men in a meeting. Joseph Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria […]

Stanley-Becker’s Europe without Borders: A History feels particularly timely, which might feel strange for a history. But it is by looking at the origins of the Schengen area, and its evolution, that the current tensions within that area, and Europe as a whole, can begin to be understood. These are the same tensions that led […]