September 2016 Issue Alan Judd Secrets & Lies Spymaster: The Life of Britain’s Most Decorated Cold War Spy and Head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield By Martin Pearce LR
April 2009 Issue Paul Addison No Turning Back Thatcher’s Britain: The Politics and Social Upheaval of the Thatcher Era By Richard Vinen LR
November 2007 Issue Frederick Taylor Dramatic Divide Iron Curtain: From Stage to Cold War By Patrick Wright LR
February 2013 Issue Michael Burleigh At Sixes & Fives Empire of Secrets: British Intelligence, the Cold War and the Twilight of Empire By Calder Walton 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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