From the February 2024 Issue Priests with Pick Axes How the Spanish Empire was Built: A 400-Year History By Felipe Fernández-Armesto & Manuel Lucena Giraldo LR
From the March 2023 Issue The God in the Machine Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science and Religion By Nicholas Spencer LR
From the November 2022 Issue It’s the Way You Tell It The Word: On the Translation of the Bible By John Barton LR
From the December 2021 Issue From Regent’s Canal to the River Amazon The Gold Machine: In the Tracks of the Mule Dancers By Iain Sinclair LR
From the November 2021 Issue Rottweiler or Shepherd? Benedict XVI: A Life – Volume Two: Professor and Prefect to Pope and Pope Emeritus 1966–the Present By Peter Seewald (Translated from German by Dinah Livingstone) LR
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Richard Flanagan's Question 7 is this year's winner of the @BGPrize.
In her review from our June issue, @rosalyster delves into Tasmania, nuclear physics, romance and Chekhov.
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Rosa Lyster: Kiss of Death - Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
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‘At times, Orbital feels almost like a long poem.’
@sam3reynolds on Samantha Harvey’s Orbital, the winner of this year’s @TheBookerPrizes
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Sam Reynolds: Islands in the Sky - Orbital by Samantha Harvey
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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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