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The Northern Bank Job: The Heist and How They Got Away With It by Glenn Patterson
Adrian 22/09/2025 Adrian 22/09/2025

The Northern Bank Job: The Heist and How They Got Away With It by Glenn Patterson

Glenn Patterson’s The Northern Bank Job is an account of Ireland’s most audacious heist. Blending investigative detail with cultural insight, Patterson explores the 2004 Belfast robbery that shook a post-conflict North of Ireland. A must-read for fans of true crime, Irish history, and political intrigue

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Book review - This is Vegan Propaganda (and other lies the meat industry tells you) - Ed Winters
Non Fiction Book Review, Non-Fiction Adrian 29/05/2022 Non Fiction Book Review, Non-Fiction Adrian 29/05/2022

Book review - This is Vegan Propaganda (and other lies the meat industry tells you) - Ed Winters

A powerful and persuasive book about how we can transform the world we live in by changing what we eat. I don’t think it’s possible to read this book and not become vegan.

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Book Review -Prisoners of Geography - Tim Marshall
Non Fiction Book Review, Non-Fiction Adrian 20/12/2021 Non Fiction Book Review, Non-Fiction Adrian 20/12/2021

Book Review -Prisoners of Geography - Tim Marshall

Tim Marshall’s ‘Prisoners of Geography’ is an engaging introduction to the world of geopolitics and explains a lot of the ambitions of global powers and how they are curbed by natural barriers.

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Book Review - Utopia For Realists (And how we get there) - Rutger Bregman
Non Fiction Book Review, Non-Fiction Adrian 03/12/2021 Non Fiction Book Review, Non-Fiction Adrian 03/12/2021

Book Review - Utopia For Realists (And how we get there) - Rutger Bregman

A review of Rutger Bregman’s ‘utopia for realists’ which is an engaging call to arms for a new utopia, with ideas such as the end of poverty and the creation of a 15 hour week. Time to get off the hamster wheel.

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Book Review - Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race - Reni Eddo-Lodge
Non Fiction Book Review, Non-Fiction Adrian 18/11/2021 Non Fiction Book Review, Non-Fiction Adrian 18/11/2021

Book Review - Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race - Reni Eddo-Lodge

An essential book about race relations in the UK today. A major contribution to the discussion of anti racism.

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Book Review - Say Nothing - Patrick Radden Keefe
Irish Non Fiction Book Review, Non-Fiction Adrian 10/11/2021 Irish Non Fiction Book Review, Non-Fiction Adrian 10/11/2021

Book Review - Say Nothing - Patrick Radden Keefe

Remarkable work of narrative non fiction that focuses on the abduction and murder of Jean McConville to tell the story of ‘the troubles.’

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Book Review - Northern Protestants On Shifting Ground
Irish, Non-Fiction Adrian 29/10/2021 Irish, Non-Fiction Adrian 29/10/2021

Book Review - Northern Protestants On Shifting Ground

An enlightening and thought provoking book on Northern Protestants over the last twenty years, with Brexit and talk of a United Ireland increasing.

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