Lang Reid

The American CIA has become everyone’s bête noir.  Even recently I read that one writer proclaimed that the CIA took control over the missing...

“I Am Malala” (ISBN 978-0-316-40346-7, Little, Brown and Company, 2013) is the biography of the Pakistani teenage girl who was shot in the head...

Editor John Brockman’s compilation, This Explains Everything (ISBN 978-0-06-223017-1, Harper Collins, 2013) has tackled what would seem an impossibility - explaining the inexplicable!  He...

For many of us adults, we look back on our school years with memories of sports after school being foremost.  How many of you...

I have always enjoyed Colin Cotterill’s books.  He writes in such a way as to drag the reader into the plot, and makes the...

One would imagine that a history of the world has, by now, been done to death.  We know when the ‘Big Bang’ went off...

A very interesting book arrived on the review table from one of the book agents round town.  It is “Air Base” (ISBN 978-616-305-707-5, and...

Thais seem to have a fascination for Korea and all things Korean, and I thought this week’s review book from Tuttle Publishing might explain...

A couple of weeks ago I was in the Bookazine in The Avenue, and picked up “True Colours”, written by Stephen Leather.  In my...