April 2020 Issue William Doyle Thirty Years a Slave Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture By Sudhir Hazareesingh
June 2015 Issue Freya Johnston The Son He Never Had The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir By Michael Bundock LR
May 2004 Issue Paul Johnson Man On A Manumission An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, And The Creation of America By Henry Wiencek LR
June 2004 Issue William Palmer Europeans For Sale White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North America's One Million European Slaves By Giles Milton LR
February 2005 Issue Saul David Cry Freedom Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery By Adam Hochschild Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees By Caroline Moorehead LR
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Richard Flanagan's Question 7 is this year's winner of the @BGPrize.
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‘At times, Orbital feels almost like a long poem.’
@sam3reynolds on Samantha Harvey’s Orbital, the winner of this year’s @TheBookerPrizes
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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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