Friedrich Engels

A choice of first novels: the war in Bosnia, a modern Irish council estate and the private life of Friedrich Engels

16 May 2015 9:00 am

As all writers know to their cost, first novels are never really first novels. They make their appearance after countless…

Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx with Jenny, Eleanor and Laura Marx, 1864

Caught between Marx and a monster

5 July 2014 9:00 am

‘Curious to see Mrs Aveling addressing the enormous crowd, curious to see the eyes of the women fixed upon her…