La forgesita revolucio de Kartvelujo
Mia prelego je la Londona Esperanto-Klubo – 8 junio 2018. Bonan vesperon. Unue, dankon pro la invito. Mi ĝojas paroli ĉi tie, je via klubo. Mi volas danki Renato Corsetti, mian instruiston, por organizi la…
Review: Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews
Jason Matthews writes with such authority about the CIA that I kept thinking as I read this book — he’s either got a great imagination, or he was a player. It turns out to be…
Review: Perfect Match, by D.B. Thorne
This is normally the kind of book I love. A gritty, serial-killer crime novel set in today’s London. Having read a very favourable review, I thought I’d give it a chance. I have to say…
Review: Flight from the USSR, by Dato Turashvili
This books tells the tragic story of a group of young Georgian men (and one woman) who chose to hijack a Soviet airliner in November 1983 in an attempt to escape to the West. As…
Review: The End, by Ian Kershaw
Ian Kershaw’s book aims to answer just one question: why did the Germans continue to fight even after the second world war was clearly lost? He reviews a number of explanations given, ranging from the…
Georgia and the West: Myths and Reality
The following is the text of a talk I gave yesterday (19.5.18) at an event at the home of Sir Oliver Wardrop, the first British high commissioner for the Transcaucasus, to mark the 100th anniversary…
Review: A Higher Loyalty – Truth, Lies, and Leadership by James Comey
In this 290 page book, Donald Trump does not make an appearance until page 210. This is not what you’d have expected, given the media focus on the sacked FBI director’s account of his meetings…
Review: The City & The City, by China Miéville
I first learned about this book because of the fact that in the BBC television series based on it, the creators decided to use the Georgian alphabet for one of the two cities — because…
Review: The Revenge of Analog – Real Things and Why They Matter, by David Sax
To be honest, I bought this book in a small, independent bookshop in San Francisco, where I spotted it while browsing a few days earlier, and not on Amazon. I read it as a paperback,…
Review: Sell Your Book Like Wildfire – The Writer’s Guide to Marketing & Publicity
Rob Eagar’s book is actually a very good introduction to the subject of book marketing for authors. Though lacking in specifics on some things (like how to get speaking gigs), his emphasis is on practical…