Interesting blog here from the Libyan writer Mohammad Al Asfar, recommended to me by one of my readers.

Here is a review I wrote of Ben Shephard's The Long Road Home which appeared in this week's New York Times Book Review.

Save Our Forests

Still time to sign this petition to stop the government privatising national forests.

Celebrity endorsements ...

According to an interview he did with the New York Times, Mick Jagger has my book on his Kindle ... Martha Nussbaum has also made some nice comments.

My first ever animated module guide ...

The Page 99 Test

Marshal Zeringue of the "Page 99 Test" blog recently set me an interesting challenge:

'I wonder if you might be interested in helping with a blog post that would tell readers more about Churchill's Empire [...]

The "test" is simple: Is Ford Madox Ford's statement "Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you," accurate for your book?'

Here is what I wrote.

I also got this mention in the correspondence columns of the New Yorker.

Weekend Edition

Here is my interview on NPR, broadcast last Saturday.