Category: Great Britain

The Obelisk and the Englishman: The Pioneering Discoveries of Egyptologist William Bankes – #biography #bookreview

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    The Obelisk and the Englishman The Pioneering Discoveries of Egyptologist William Bankes Dorothy U. Seyler Prometheus Books – hardback, Kindle   Early in the 19th century, a young Englishman repeatedly risked death and overcame numerous dangers as he sailed along the Nile River and journeyed into deserts, discovering and documenting important details about … Continue reading The Obelisk and the Englishman: The Pioneering Discoveries of Egyptologist William Bankes – #biography #bookreview

GUN STREET GIRL: Detective Sean Duffy is back in action, by popular demand! – #mystery #fiction #bookreview

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Gun Street Girl A Detective Sean Duffy Novel Adrian McKinty Seventh Street Books – paperback, Kindle At first glance, “Gun Street Girl” seems like the title for a cheap, unpromising paperback potboiler. But the good news is, it’s actually Adrian McKinty’s latest Detective Sean Duffy mystery. Readers literally begged McKinty to keep Duffy alive after … Continue reading GUN STREET GIRL: Detective Sean Duffy is back in action, by popular demand! – #mystery #fiction #bookreview

The Troubles Trilogy: Adrian McKinty’s Northern Ireland crime novels are powerful, engrossing reading – #bookreview

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In the Morning I’ll Be Gone Book Three: The Troubles Trilogy Adrian McKinty (Seventh Street Books, paperback) I wish I had discovered The Troubles Trilogy and Detective Sean Duffy much sooner than Book Three. I really don’t like reading trilogies in reverse. But Adrian McKinty is an amazingly good crime novelist. And now that I have … Continue reading The Troubles Trilogy: Adrian McKinty’s Northern Ireland crime novels are powerful, engrossing reading – #bookreview

The Book of Ruby: A Hands-On Guide for the Adventurous – #ruby #programming #software #bookreview

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The Book of Ruby: A Hands-On Guide for the Adventurous By Huw Collingbourne (No Starch Press, $39.95, paperback; $31.95, Kindle)  Ruby, first introduced in 1995, is “a cross-platform interpreted language that has many features in common with other ‘scripting’ languages such as Perl and Python,” says Huw Collingbourne,  who is director of technology for SapphireSteel Software and has 30 … Continue reading The Book of Ruby: A Hands-On Guide for the Adventurous – #ruby #programming #software #bookreview

The Book of Books: The Radical Impact of the King James Bible, 1611-2011 – #bookreview

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The Book of Books: The Radical Impact of the King James Bible, 1611-2011 By Melvyn Bragg (Counterpoint Press, $28.00 hardback; $20.00 Kindle) As a child, I liked and respected the King James Bible. But I hated religion. I had been born into a “Christian” demonination that tried incessantly to pound hellfire, damnation and, sadly, white supremacy, … Continue reading The Book of Books: The Radical Impact of the King James Bible, 1611-2011 – #bookreview