From the May 2024 Issue Eternity Was in Their Lips The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt By Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
From the August 2023 Issue Where Now is That Great Nineveh? Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire By Eckart Frahm LR
From the November 2022 Issue Top of the Roman Rich List Crassus: The First Tycoon By Peter Stothard LR
From the April 2022 Issue The House that Cyrus Built Persians: The Age of the Great Kings By Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones LR
From the December 2019 Issue People of the Horse The Scythians: Nomad Warriors of the Steppe By Barry Cunliffe LR
From the July 2016 Issue Beyond the Bosphorus In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World By Christian Marek (Translated by Steven Rendall) LR
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Nick Harkaway, John le Carré's son, has gone back to the 1960s with a new novel featuring his father's anti-hero, George Smiley.
But is this the missing link in le Carré’s oeuvre, asks @ddguttenplan, or is there something awry?
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D D Guttenplan: Smiley Redux - Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway
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