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December 2008 Issue Alexander Waugh The Pied Piper Effect The Triumph of Music: Composers, Musicians and their Audiences, 1700 to the Present By Tim Blanning LR
August 2008 Issue Jonathan Sumption ‘Can One Save a King Who is on Trial?’ A History of Political Trials from Charles I to Saddam Hussein By John Laughland LR
October 2007 Issue Saul David Better Than The Romans The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781–1997 By Piers Brendon LR
August 2007 Issue Michael Burleigh Failed States The Force of Destiny: A History of Italy Since 1796 By Christopher Duggan LR
December 2011 Issue Vernon Bogdanor Lion, Harp & Unicorn The Two Unions: Ireland, Scotland, and the Survival of the United Kingdom, 1707–2007 By Alvin Jackson LR
September 2012 Issue Robert Bickers Beyond the Great Wall Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750 By Odd Arne Westad 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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