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May 2020 Issue Phineas Harper Build Brown, Go Green The Art of Earth Architecture: Past, Present, Future By Jean Dethier
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September 1995 Issue Alan Shipman We Are All At Risk Plague's Progress: A Social History of Man and Disease By Arno Karlen LR
November 2016 Issue Robin Oakley A Rough Ride The Age of the Horse: An Equine Journey through Human History By Susanna Forrest LR
June 2003 Issue Christopher Ondaatje You Give Me Fever The Miraculous Fever-Tree: Malaria, Medicine and the Cure that Changed the World By Fiammetta Rocco LR
May 2004 Issue Michael Bywater Stiff Competition O: The Intimate History of the Orgasm By Jonathan Margolis 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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D D Guttenplan: Smiley Redux - Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway
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