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Steve Howell

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in Wallasey, The United Kingdom

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http://www.steve-howell.com

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History, Thriller, Crime

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Steve Howell is a journalist and author of four books, his latest being Cold War Puerto Rico, which is due to be published by the University of Massachusetts Press on May 1, 2026 and is available for pre-order now.

Steve's account of the UK's 2017 General Election - Game Changer: Eight Weeks That Transformed British Politics – was a Guardian political book of the year in 2018. He is also author of two novels: Over The Line (2015), which tells the story of an Olympic athlete caught up in a drugs scandal, and Collateral Damage (2021), a political thriller set in Libya, London and Lebanon in the 1980s.
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Steve has appeared as a political commentator on the BBC, ITV, Sky News, LBC and in podcasts for The Times, Guardian and Daily Mirror. He has al ...more

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	Collateral Damage 4.48 avg rating — 58 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Game Changer - Eight Weeks That Transformed British Politics 3.98 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2018 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Over The Line 3.83 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2015 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cold War Puerto Rico: Anti-Communism in Washington’s Caribbean Colony liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — expected publication 2026 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Collateral Damage

My second novel tells the story of a Lebanese-Palestinian woman’s battle to discover the truth about the death of her British partner.
Collateral Damage will be published on April 15 and can be pre-ordered via my website - www.steve-howell.com.
Set in 1987, it follows Ayesha Khoury as she tries get to the bottom of how and why her lover, journalist Tom Carver, died on a beach in Tripoli while attend Read more of this blog post »

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Steve Howell and 1 other person liked Teara Reene's review of Cold War Puerto Rico: Anti-Communism in Washington’s Caribbean Colony (Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond): "Many people don't give a second thought to the political climate of Puerto Rico. This book gives a perspective that is often under explored and thought about. I believe this book was written in a very digestible format that helped make politics inter" Read more of this review »
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Steve Howell and 1 other person liked Rebecca Shtasel's review of Collateral Damage: "This was a proper page-turner. I haven't read one for ages and I remembered how much fun it is, not being able to put a book down! I enjoyed too that it was set in London in the 80s and the fact that the protagonists were lefties. My sort of book :)"
Feb 17, 2026 02:30AM · see review
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“Lying never looks good when there's a corpse involved.”
― Steve Howell, Over The Line

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“Lying never looks good when there's a corpse involved.”
― Steve Howell, Over The Line

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“What I know most surely about morality and the duty of man I owe to sport.”
― Albert Camus

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“I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”
― Rosa Parks

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“shame was a useless emotion, preventing people from making amends because they believed themselves unworthy of forgiveness.”
― C.R. Howell, The Woman in My Home

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