The Mike Robbins blog

Travel, science, books. Whatever I feel like, really.

Sunday, 30 July 2023

Original crime

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Detective fiction is not dead. Two recent crime novels have been  bestsellers. And both deserve to be In a week or two, God willing, about...
Friday, 19 May 2023

Crime on the side

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Crime writing is fun, but don’t give up the day job...  A look at t wo vintage detective stories by men who didn’t When I was a child my p...
Monday, 22 August 2022

On change, war and the passage of time

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A change in my life has made me aware of time passing, of one’s former world slipping away, and of loss. A century ago, the First World War ...
Monday, 16 May 2022

On the Rim of the Sea

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  Enjoy the sea view. Don’t fall in At the end of 2012 I started this blog. I don’t know quite what I planned to do with it at the time. T...
Sunday, 13 February 2022

The Red Wall: How Labour lost its safest seats

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Britain’s Labour Party lost many of its “safe” seats in 2019. Can it get them back? First it must know why it lost them. Two books explain w...
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Mike Robbins is the author of six books: The Lost Baggage of Silvia Guzmán (2014), a novel; The Nine Horizons (2014), a collection of travel pieces; Three Seasons, a trio of novellas; Even the Dead are Coming (2009), a memoir of life as a volunteer in Eastern Sudan; Crops and Carbon (2011), about agriculture and climate change; and a novella, Dog! (2015). He was born in London but has lived in many countries. (Pic: S. Ligabue)
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