From the March 2022 Issue The World Was Not Enough Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan By Felipe Fernández-Armesto LR
From the July 2021 Issue Alhambra Confidential City of Illusions: A History of Granada By Helen Rodgers & Stephen Cavendish LR
From the July 2020 Issue From Knossos to Cádiz The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History By Greg Woolf LR
From the February 2019 Issue Classical Connections The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found – A History in Seven Cities By Violet Moller
From the December 2013 Issue Seeder of Lebanon Renaissance Emir: A Druze Warlord at the Court of the Medici By T J Gorton LR
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https://literaryreview.co.uk/terrors-of-the-sky
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Barnaby Crowcroft on the rise of Qatar.
https://literaryreview.co.uk/full-of-gas