From the December 2019 Issue Showdown on the Linoleum Ocean A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Secret Game that Won the War By Simon Parkin
From the August 2019 Issue A Real Muck Raker Mudlarking: Lost and Found on the River Thames By Lara Maiklem LR
From the April 2019 Issue Star Tracks The Vinyl Frontier: The Story of the Voyager Golden Record By Jonathan Scott LR
From the November 2018 Issue Objects of Little Consequence In Miniature: How Small Things Illuminate the World By Simon Garfield LR
From the October 2018 Issue Lights, Camera, Action ‘Broadsword Calling Danny Boy’: On 'Where Eagles Dare' By Geoff Dyer LR
From the July 2018 Issue La Vie en Prose Notes from the Cévennes: Half a Lifetime in Provincial France By Adam Thorpe LR
From the April 2018 Issue Adventures in the Plumage Trade The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century By Kirk Wallace Johnson LR
From the March 2018 Issue Earning Their Wings Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe By Gordon Corera
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'Thirkell was a product of her time and her class. For her there are no sacred cows, barring those that win ribbons at the Barchester Agricultural.'
The novelist Angela Thirkell is due a revival, says Patricia T O'Conner (£).
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'Only in Britain, perhaps, could spy chiefs – conventionally viewed as masters of subterfuge – be so highly regarded as ethical guides.'
https://literaryreview.co.uk/the-spy-who-taught-me
In this month's Bookends, @AdamCSDouglas looks at the curious life of Henry Labouchere: a friend of Bram Stoker, 'loose cannon', and architect of the law that outlawed homosexual activity in Britain.
https://literaryreview.co.uk/a-gross-indecency