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Saturday 17th May |
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Book Reviews
Warsaw 1920 By Adam Zamoyski The year the east and west were won
Pavel And I By Dan Vyleta Frozen moments in Berlin
A Partisan's Daughter By Louis De Bernières The winter of his discontent
Foreskin's Lament: A Memoir By Shalom Auslander The devil's in the detail. And the Twinkies
The Ballad Of Dorothy Wordsworth By Frances Wilson 'She gave me eyes, she gave me ears' said Wordsworth of his sister. Is this the key to understanding their relationship?
When To Walk By Rebecca Gowers Witty, spiky, clever and psychologically acute fiction
The Diary Of Petr Ginz By Chava Pressburger The diary of a Jewish teenager who lived in Nazi-occupied Prague
The Old Country By Sam North all the sensations of lived experience with an unerring sense of le mot juste
The Night Of The Mi'raj By Zoë Ferraris A look at how Saudi Arabia's Muslim mores and sharia laws affect gender relationships, wrapped up in a murder mystery
Planet Narnia By Michael Ward Were the seven Narnia Chronicles based on the seven planets of medieval cosmology? It's a fascinating thesis
The Indian Clerk By David Leavitt The life of the maths prodigy Ramanujan inspires a novel which takes some liberties with the truth
Nothing To Be Frightened Of By Julian Barnes An author's obsession with death
Fireproof By Raj Kamal Jha A true tale of terror
The Year Of Living Biblically By Aj Jacobs By the book...
Beautiful Children By Charles Bock A compelling tale of loss set amid the tawdry end of the American Dream
Propitious Esculent: The Potato In World History By John Reader A history of the spud that will make your mind, but not your mouth, water
An Expert In Murder By Nicola Upson At least six characters – and as many plots – in search of an author
Bog Child By Siobhan Dowd Song of the earth
The Rest Is Noise: Listening To The Twentieth Century By Alex Ross Listen to that siren solo ...
The Last Great Fight: The Extraordinary Tale Of Two Men And How One Fight Changed Their Lives Forever By Joe Layden When 'Iron' Mike lost his air of invincibility
Singing In The Dark At home with the horses
Sir Gawain And The Green Knight Translated By Simon Armitage There's life in the green giant yet
Propitious Esculent: The Potato In World History By John Reader All hail the uber-tuber
God's Fury, England's Fire: A New History Of The English Civil Wars By Michael Braddick The man who would be king
The Angel Of Grozny: Inside Chechnya By Asne Seierstad When the Russian bear roared |
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