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Oldie Review Of Books

 

 

 

 

 

That Woman: Wallis Simpson Anne Sebba; Charles Dickens: A Life Claire Tomalin; Becoming Dickens Robert Douglas-Fairhurst; The Necessary Aptitude Pam Ayres; The Genius in My Basement Alexander Masters; A Train in Winter Caroline Moorehead; Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness Alexandra Fuller; Georgette Heyer Jennifer Kloester; Nikolaus Pevsner Susie Harries; All Made Up Janice Galloway
In Glorious Technicolour Francine Stock; The Good, the Bad and the Multiplex  Mark Kermode

Sam Leith on the Booker Prize

Ghosts of Empire: Britain's Legacies in the Modern World Kwasi Kwarteng; Empire: What Ruling the World did to the British Jeremy Paxman; The Queen's Agent John Cooper; Soldiers Richard Holmes; A Force to be Reckoned With Jane Robinson; Into the Silence Wade Davis; Spies in the Sky Taylor Downing; Foundation Peter Ackroyd; The Elizabethans AN Wilson; The Art of Betrayal Gordon Corera; City of Fortune Roger Crowley

The 9/11 Wars Jason Burke; Boomerang Michael Lewis; Confidence Ron Suskind

The Revolution will be Digitised Heather Brooke; DarkMarket Misha Glenny; Free Ride Robert Levine

The Better Angels of Our Nature Steven Pinker; Is that a Fish in Your Ear? David Bellos; The Magic of Reality Richard Dawkins; You Talkin' To Me? Sam Leith

Leonora Carrington, 1917-2011

Higgy Alastair Hignell; Vertigo John Crace

Paperback roundup by Imogen Lycett Green

One on One Craig Brown; The Ultimate Book of Heroic Failures Stephen Pile

Ten Popes who Shook the World Eamon Duffy

At the Yeoman's House Ronald Blythe; Why Every Man Needs a Tractor
Charles Elliott; Wild Hares and Hummingbirds Stephen Moss

Through the Woods HE Bates; Twopence Coloured Patrick Hamilton; Foliage Plants Christopher Lloyd; Good Behaviour Molly Keane

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