From the April 2019 Issue Steeple Chase Ships of Heaven: The Private Life of Britain’s Cathedrals By Christopher Somerville LR
From the October 2016 Issue The Definitive Version The Word Detective: A Life in Words – From Serendipity to Selfie By John Simpson LR
From the September 2014 Issue Words to the Wise The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century By Steven Pinker The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language By John H McWhorter LR
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‘The Second World War was won in Oxford. Discuss.’
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Nicholas Rankin: We Shall Fight in the Buttery - Oxford’s War 1939–1945 by Ashley Jackson
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For the first time, all of Sylvia Plath’s surviving prose, a massive body of stories, articles, reviews and letters, has been gathered together in a single volume.
@FionaRSampson sifts it for evidence of how the young Sylvia became Sylvia Plath.
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Fiona Sampson: Changed in a Minute - The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath by Peter K Steinberg (ed)
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The ruling class has lost its sprezzatura.
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