From the August 2024 Issue Prophecies, Potions & Prayers Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic By Tabitha Stanmore LR
From the July 2023 Issue Between Bale & Bailiff Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside By Rebecca Smith Shaping the Wild: Wisdom from a Welsh Hill Farm By David Elias LR
From the July 2022 Issue Cold Comforts Landscapes of Silence: From Childhood to the Arctic By Hugh Brody LR
From the April 2022 Issue They Courted Trouble The House of Dudley: The Fall of England’s Most Scandalous Family By Joanne Paul LR
From the April 2021 Issue Symphony of a Thousand Millennia The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth By Michael Spitzer The Life of Music: New Adventures in the Western Classical Tradition By Nicholas Kenyon
From the October 2020 Issue Breaking the Spell The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present By Chris Gosden LR
From the June 2020 Issue Come Hell & High Water Sons of the Waves: The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail 1740–1840 By Stephen Taylor
From the December 2019 Issue In Neptune’s Vast Dominions Sailing School: Navigating Science and Skill 1550–1800 By Margaret E Schotte 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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