February 2021 Issue Levi Roach A Family Business Blood Royal: Dynastic Politics in Medieval Europe By Robert Bartlett LR
June 2020 Issue Philip Parker The Silk Road & the Sandalwood Seas The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the Globe – and Globalization Began By Valerie Hansen LR
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October 2016 Issue Philip Parker Norse Code Beyond the Northlands: Viking Voyages and the Old Norse Sagas By Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough LR
September 2008 Issue Diarmaid MacCulloch Not That Nigh Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom By Tom Holland 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.
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