September 2016 Issue Kevin Jackson Use Your Illusions Conjuring Asia: Magic, Orientalism, and the Making of the Modern World By Chris Goto-Jones LR
August 2015 Issue Felipe Fernández-Armesto From the Black Sea to Xinjiang The Silk Roads: A New History of the World By Peter Frankopan LR
October 2003 Issue Matthew Leeming At The Heart Of Asia The Silk Road: Art and History By Jonathan Tucker Strolling About on the Roof of the World: The First Hundred Years of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs By Hugh Leach, Susan Maria Farrington LR
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Fiona Sampson: Changed in a Minute - The Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath by Peter K Steinberg (ed)
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