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Book reviews by Graeme Shimmin.

Never Let Me Go: Book Review and Analysis

Never Let Me Go, written by Kazuo Ishiguro and published in 1992, is one of the greatest alternative history novels ever written. It’s the only alternative history novel…

A Legacy of Spies: Book Review

A Legacy of Spies is a John le Carré novel published in 2017. It’s a parallel story to The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, within a…

The Guns of the South – Book Review

The Guns of the South, written by Harry Turtledove and published in 1992, is one of the classic alternative history novels. It weaves a story around a fascinating premise: ‘What…

Bring the Jubilee – Book Review

Bring the Jubilee, written by Ward Moore and published in 1953, is one of the classic alternative history novels. Set in the mid-twentieth century, it describes a world…

Olivia Joules: Book Review

Olivia Joules, written by Helen Fielding, the author of the Bridget Jones novels, and published in 2004, is a comedy-romance-spy-thriller about a journalist who suspects a millionaire businessman may also…

The Top Five Alternative History Novels Written by Women

Alternative History is a genre that often seems dominated by male authors. But there are plenty of great alternative history novels written by women too. In fact, several…

Watchmen: Graphic Novel Review

Watchmen, written by Alan Moore, drawn by Dave Gibbons and coloured by John Higgins, was serialised in 1986 and published as a graphic novel in 1987. Hugely commercially and critically successful, critics have long…

King Solomon’s Mines: Book Review

King Solomon’s Mines was one of the first of the ‘lost world’ novels. H Rider Haggard published it in 1885 to immense commercial success. It has been hugely influential…

The Coming Race: Book Review

The Coming Race, written in 1871 by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, was one of the first lost world novels and a prototype science-fiction novel. Weirdly, the novel also played a role in…

Bulldog Drummond: Book Review

Bulldog Drummond was written by ‘Sapper’ (a pseudonym of Cyril McNeile) and published in 1920 to great commercial success. It spawned a long-running franchise of novels and movies that lasted into the…