Raynor Reads Stuff

Tag: Politics

  • REVIEW: Notes on Nationalism by George Orwell

    Here we go, Number 07 in the Penguin Modern Classics is George Orwell’s Notes on Nationalism and I am still loathing with a passion that font on the front cover. The double L looks ridiculous. However, the contents of this book are incredibly interesting. This 52-page volume contains three essays written by Orwell in 1945.…

  • REVIEW: The House by the Lake by Thomas Harding

    When I looked through the list of what I had read last year there was a distinct lack of anything other than novels and so this year I am trying to include more poetry, plays and non-fiction in my reading matter. This comes into the last of those three categories and is just fascinating. Thomas…

  • REVIEW: Letter from Birmingham Jail

    Hello my lovely bookish friends. I have fallen very behind with my blogging recently (apologies) and I have a pile of 16 books sitting on my desk staring mournfully at me just waiting for me to write about them. These include four children’s books, one travel book, three books of poetry, seven novels and this:…