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Monday 20 October 2008

 

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The romance of science

Ben Wilson

15th October, 2008

The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes

The romance of science

Great expectations dashed

James Buchan

15th October, 2008

Origins: A Memoir by Amin Maalouf, translated by Catherine Temerson

The spectre of Spielberg

Anne Applebaum

15th October, 2008

Searching for Schindler by Thomas Keneally

First knight and his lady

Sarah Burton

15th October, 2008

A Strange, Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and Their Remarkable Families by Michael Holroyd

Life & Letters

15th October, 2008

Allan Massies dips into Brideshead Revisited

For old times’ sake

Peter Hoskin

15th October, 2008

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros Story by Richard Schickel and George Perry

Faith in the Founding Fathers

Bronwen Maddox

15th October, 2008

The American Future by Simon Schama

On stage from the start

Sam Leith

8th October, 2008

Henry: Virtuous Prince by David Starkey

The man with the Midas touch

Anthony Beachey

8th October, 2008

The Snowball by Alice Schroeder

A choice of crime novels

Andrew Taylor

8th October, 2008

The Spies of Warsaw by Alan Furst

Living with a dark horse

Jane Ridley

8th October, 2008

The Horsey Life by Simon Barnes

Surprising literary ventures

Gary Dexter

8th October, 2008

So You Want to Try Drugs? by Fiona Foster and Alexander McCall Smith

The Best of Punch Cartoons

Michael Heath

8th October, 2008

The Best of Punch Cartoons by Helen Walasek

Terrors of the imagination

Paul Binding

8th October, 2008

The Beacon by Susan Hill

A laughing cavalier

Bevis Hillier

1st October, 2008

Cartoons and Coronets: The Genius of Osbert Lancaster by James Knox

Morality tale with a difference

Honor Clerk

1st October, 2008

A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré

A safe pair of hands

Robert Salisbury

1st October, 2008

A Political Suicide: The Conservatives’ Voyage into the Wilderness by Norman Fowler

Diving into darkness

Robert Macfarlane

1st October, 2008

Connemara: The Last Pool of Darkness by Tim Robinson

Carrie on shopping

Melissa Kite

1st October, 2008

One Fifth Avenue by Candace Bushnell

Unruly children as parents

Geordie Greig

1st October, 2008

Starstruck by Cosmo Landesman

The pragmatic approach

Jonathan Sumption

1st October, 2008

What Next? Surviving the Twenty-first Century by Chris Patten

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