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My Thin Red Line
I was never very keen on history when I was a school. I think it was the way that it was presented as dates after dates without any personal stories that I could relate to as a teenager. It wasn’t...
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The Pacific
I have just finished reading Hugh Ambrose’s THE PACIFIC in preparation for watching the first episode of the new HBO series tonight. Hugh Ambrose has done a good job of what must have been a very...
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Elliot Perlman’s THE STREET SWEEPER
“Who is going to sit in judgment over all this? And who is going to judge…me?” “Tell everyone what happened here! Tell everyone! Tell everyone!” Earlier this year Elliot Perlman spoke at the Leading...
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All Things David Benioff
David Benioff is currently well known as the screenwriter of the incredible HBO adaption of George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones. He is also the screenwriter of the adaptation of The Kite Runner as...
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Paul Ham’s HIROSHIMA NAGASAKI
I rank Paul Ham as the best Australian historians currently writing. Each of his books; Kokoda, Vietnam: The Australian War and now this book are each meticulously researched and written in a very...
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Stuart Neville’s RATLINES
I love a good World War Two thriller and am a sucker for Irish crime so to get both in one was something I was never expecting. Ireland’s role in the Second World War is rarely mentioned in history...
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Paul Ham’s SANDAKAN
As I’ve said previously I rank Paul Ham as one of the best Australian historians writing at the moment and his latest book only confirms this status. Ham evocatively recounts the story of the 2500...
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John Birmingham’s STALIN’S HAMMER: ROME
There are so many things to love about this. Firstly John Birmingham returns to his Axis of Time series which if you haven’t read you must. Briefly a military experiment in 2021 goes horribly wrong and...
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BOOK CHEWING: My Interview with John Birmingham, author of STALIN’S HAMMER: ROME
I am a huge fan of John Birmingham. From the cult classic He Died With A Felafel In His Hand through to his techno thrillers and everything in between. For his latest book, Stalin’s Hammer: Rome, John...
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Richard Flanagan’s THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DEEP NORTH
I first heard about this book when Richard Flanagan spoke at the Leading Edge Books dinner at the recent ABA/Leading Edge Conference in Adelaide in June. Richard and comedian Tim Ferguson were the...
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Stuart Neville’s RATLINES
I love a good World War Two thriller and am a sucker for Irish crime so to get both in one was something I was never expecting. Ireland’s role in the Second World War is rarely mentioned in history...
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Antony Beevor’s ARDENNES 1944
Antony Beevor’s latest book completes his histories of the Eastern and Western Fronts of the Second World War. Beginning with the award winning Stalingrad then Berlin and concluding with D-Day and now...
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