From the March 2024 Issue Mysteries of the Deep A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks By David Gibbins LR
From the April 2019 Issue Where Every Man is an Island Sea People: In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific By Christina Thompson LR
From the April 2018 Issue He Never Sat an Exam A Longing for Wide and Unknown Things: The Life of Alexander von Humboldt By Maren Meinhardt
From the September 2016 Issue Marooned with a View Crusoe’s Island: A Rich and Curious History of Pirates, Castaways and Madness By Andrew Lambert LR
From the August 2016 Issue From Plymouth to Polynesia Endeavouring Banks: Exploring Collections from the ‘Endeavour’ Voyage 1768–1771 By Neil Chambers LR
From the May 2016 Issue ‘Great South Land of the Holy Spirit’ The Savage Shore: Extraordinary Stories of Survival and Tragedy from the Early Voyages of Discovery By Graham Seal LR
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Richard Flanagan's Question 7 is this year's winner of the @BGPrize.
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Sam Reynolds: Islands in the Sky - Orbital by Samantha Harvey
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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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