Matthew Parker writes about the history of the sugar industry and the slave era in the West Indies in the kind of detail I've never seen before. Parker's detailed accounts of the birth and rise of an industry powerful enough to have influenced Great Britain's North American policy, and the men wh...
Ian Fleming, ‘How to Write a Thriller’ Ann and Ian continued their correspondence during the spring and summer of 1950, although their meetings were, for discretion’s sake, few and snatched. Ian professed his love for her ‘more than any other woman’, but also his misgivings about her divorcing an...
At home, however, they had their own concerns. At the end of the previous year there had been an armed uprising against the state president; a district judge and two others were killed during violence in Panama City's sprawling and volatile suburbs. On April 17, a month before the conference open...