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John Dodds's Book Blog
Bookfan. Likes include classic fiction, crime and thrillers.
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Steve Jobs
The Cuckoo's Calling
The Far Corner: A Mazy Dribble Through North-East Football
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The Bicycle Book
World War I: The "Great War"
A History of Ireland in 100 Objects
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea (Swallows And Amazons)
Her Majesty's Pleasure: How Horse Racing Reveals the Queen
A Brief History of The Middle East (Brief History)
Concise overview of Middle Eastern history from ancient times to the present day.Useful as a launchpad for wider reading.
Irritating style: rejects footnotes in favour of citing sources in the text ("as X reminds us ... ") then overuses the device ("Expert writers such as the scholar R T France estimate that Jesus was born for years ahead of his 'official' birth.)