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December 2016 Issue Catherine Peters Down and Out Mansions of Misery: A Biography of the Marshalsea Debtors' Prison By Jerry White LR
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April 2012 Issue Leslie Mitchell Capital Gains London in the Eighteenth Century: A Great and Monstrous Thing By Jerry White LR
September 2013 Issue Norma Clarke London with the Many Sins The First Bohemians: Life and Art in London’s Golden Age By Vic Gatrell The Beau Monde: Fashionable Society in Georgian London By Hannah Greig 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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