December 2006 Issue Full Archive Jump to: Foreign Parts | Biography | Memoirs & Diaries | Fiction Foreign Parts Justin Cartwright A Love Letter to Jo’burg Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked By Ivan Vladislavic LR Biography John Gray An Ambivalent Authority Alexis de Tocqueville: Prophet of Democracy in the Age of Revolution By Hugh Brogan LR Diana Athill Natural Inclinations Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature By Linda Lear LR Memoirs & Diaries John Adamson The Gracious Curmudgeon Things I Didn't Know By Robert Hughes LR Michael Bloch The Courtier’s Craft King's Counsellor: Abdication and War – The Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles By Duff Hart-Davis (ed) LR Fiction William Brett Eating Misery Half Of A Yellow Sun By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Justin Cartwright A Love Letter to Jo’burg Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked By Ivan Vladislavic LR
John Gray An Ambivalent Authority Alexis de Tocqueville: Prophet of Democracy in the Age of Revolution By Hugh Brogan LR
Michael Bloch The Courtier’s Craft King's Counsellor: Abdication and War – The Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles By Duff Hart-Davis (ed) LR
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Cicero's life was bookended by two momentous events: the fall of Roman Republic and the rise of the future Augustus.
Llewelyn Morgan asks what his letters reveal about this turning point in history.
Llewelyn Morgan - Letters from a Cataclysm
Llewelyn Morgan: Letters from a Cataclysm - Orator: The Life of Cicero and the End of the Roman Republic by Catharine Edwards
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A flurry of recent Plath paraphernalia has come to a head with a new edition of her collected poems.
Seamus Perry rejoices at the manifold, mutable woman who emerges to challenge Ted Hughes’s 1981 edition.
Seamus Perry - A Bulbous Moon
Seamus Perry: A Bulbous Moon - The Poems of Sylvia Plath by Amanda Golden & Karen V Kukil (eds)
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