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Review: Harold Wilson – Twentieth Century Man – by Alan Johnson (Swift Press 2025) Paperback version. Here’s a first! Alan Johnson and firebrand socialist Jimmy Reid have something common, even although the two were – and still are – poles and polls apart. A Scottish journalist once described Red Clydesider Reid as ‘having the gift of saying exactly what he means.’ It was gift the Glaswegian showed in his oratory and writing throughout his life from his beginnings w

REVIEW: The Crime Writer by Russ Litten (New Grass Books 2025) ‘A good writer borrows … a great writer steals’ –...

“ [With] prose superior to film in capturing brief, confusing, life-or-death situations. This meticulously researched history moves along...

We Know What We Are – Russ Litten (Obliterati Press, 2018) This debut short story collection from novelist Russ Litten is, to paraphrase...