September 2016 Issue Peter Moore Marooned with a View Crusoe’s Island: A Rich and Curious History of Pirates, Castaways and Madness By Andrew Lambert LR
July 2003 Issue Andrew Taylor On the Wrong Side of Progress FitzRoy: The Remarkable Story of Darwin's Captain and the Invention of the Weather Forecast By John and Mary Gribbin Evolution's Captain: The Tragic Fate of Robert FitzRoy, the Man who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World By Peter Nichols LR
December 2003 Issue Andrew Taylor The Price of Heroism Captain Scott By Rannulph Fiennes The Last Great Quest: Captain Scott's Antarctic Sacrifice By Max Jones LR
September 2004 Issue Nick Smith A Native of the Ends of the Earth Sir James Wordie, Polar Crusader: Exploring the Arctic and Antarctic By Michael Smith LR
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Richard Flanagan's Question 7 is this year's winner of the @BGPrize.
In her review from our June issue, @rosalyster delves into Tasmania, nuclear physics, romance and Chekhov.
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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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