From the December 2010 Issue Living The Low Life London Labour and the London Poor: A Selected Edition By Henry Mayhew, Edited by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst LR
From the October 2008 Issue On the Slab The Making of Mr Gray’s Anatomy: Bodies, Books, Fortune, Fame By Ruth Richardson LR
From the September 2007 Issue The Great Pretender The Tichborne Claimant: A Victorian Sensation By Rohan McWilliam LR
From the June 2007 Issue The Emperor of Vice The Fox and the Flies: The World of Joseph Silver, Racketeer and Psychopath By Charles van Onselen 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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