From the June 2024 Issue Long Live the Late Queen! From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I By Susan Doran LR
From the July 2020 Issue Mystery of the Manuscript The Book in the Cathedral: The Last Relic of Thomas Becket By Christopher de Hamel LR
From the April 2017 Issue Crown Estates Houses of Power: The Places that Shaped the Tudor World By Simon Thurley
From the August 2015 Issue When England Ruled France The Hundred Years War: Volume IV – Cursed Kings By Jonathan Sumption
From the March 2009 Issue Defender Of The Brand Selling the Tudor Monarchy: Authority and Image in Sixteenth-Century England By Kevin Sharpe LR
From the May 2012 Issue Great Matter, Small Fry Our Man in Rome: Henry VIII & His Italian Ambassador By Catherine Fletcher LR
From the August 2013 Issue Marriages of Inconvenience Crown of Thistles: The Fatal Inheritance of Mary Queen of Scots By Linda Porter 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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