Book Reviews

My book reviews appear in scholarly journals and popular media.

Below is a curated book reviews list. Publishers of fiction and some academic books can get in touch to suggest review ideas via Substack or LinkedIn (see Contact page).I am especially interested in reading more of the following genres: mysteries and thrillers; experimental literature; literary biographies and theory; philosophy and history of philosophy; obscure historical authors and overlooked historical themes.

List of Book Reviews and Discussions

• Andrew Sanger, On Romford Road (Focus Books, London, 2025)
• Flann O’Brien and Daniel Keith Jerigen, ed., Flann O’Brien: Plays and Teleplays (Dalkey Archive Press, 2013).
• Flann O’Brien and Maebh Long, ed., The Collected Letters of Flann O’Brien (Dalkey Archive Press, 2018).
• Giulia Bruna, J.M. Synge and Travel Writing of the Irish Revival (Syracuse University Press, 2017).
• John Brady Kiesling, Greek Urban Warriors: Resistance and Terrorism, 1967-2014 (Lycabbetus Press, 2015).
• John Monfasani, Bessarion Scholasticus: A Study of Cardinal Bessarion’s Latin Library (Brepols, 2012), 306pp.
• Lewen Weldon, Hard Lying: An Intelligence Officer on the Levantine Shore, 1914-1919 (Eland Publishing, London: 2023).
• Ondřej Pilný, Ruud van den Beuken and Ian R. Walsh, eds., Cultural Convergence: The Dublin Gate Theatre, 1928–1960, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).
• Panagiotis Dimitrakis, Greek Military Intelligence and the Crescent:  Estimating the Turkish Threat; Crises, Leadership and Strategic Analyses 1974-1996 (University of Plymouth Press, 2010).
• Panos Sophoulis, Banditry in the Medieval Balkans, 800-1500 (Springer, 2020).
• Panos Sophoulis, Byzantium and Bulgaria, 775-831 (Brill: 2011).
• Paul Fagan and Dieter Fuchs, eds., Flann O’Brien: Acting Out, . (Cork University Press, 2022).
• Peter Trudgill, In Sfakia: Passing Time in the Wilds of Crete (Lycabettus Press. Athens, 2008).
• Tom Winnifrith,  Nobody’s Kingdom: A History of Northern Albania (Signal Books, 2020).

Further Reviews

• Florin Leonte, Imperial Visions of Late Byzantium: Manuel II Palaiologos and Rhetoric in Purple. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. Pp. 34. Review published in Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Vol. 46, issue 2, October 2022.
• Edward J. Erickson and Mesut Uyar, Phase Line Attila: The Amphibious Campaign for Cyprus, 1974, US Marine Corps Press, 2020. Review published in the Naval War College Review: Vol. 75: No. 3, Article 9.
• Reginald Hibbert, Somewhere Near to History: The Wartime Diaries of Reginald Hibbert, SOE Officer in Albania, 1943-1944, Edited by Jane Nicolov Signal Books, 2020. Reviewed in The RUSI Journal, Vol. 165 issue 7.