From the September 2020 Issue An Epidemic of Sense The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates By Robin Lane Fox LR
From the June 2017 Issue Flower Gathering The Book of Greek & Roman Folktales, Legends & Myths By William Hansen (ed) LR
From the April 2015 Issue He, the People Pericles of Athens By Vincent Azoulay (Translated by Janet Lloyd) LR
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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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