Whilst mooching through the books for review, I came across A Place Called Freedom lurking in the crime fiction section. Although criminal acts feature in this book, to my mind it should be re-categorised as historical fiction, or more correctly "faction" (this is a very well researched novel) and is about man's constant fight against slavery. Ken Follett, as many will know, is a staunch supporter of the Labour Party, so it comes as no surprise that he should write a novel based on exploitation of the working man. But this book is more than a manifesto on behalf of the Labour Party and is much more about the industrialisation and social history of ...  Read the complete review