August 2021 Issue Mary Kenny Blood in the Park The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge, and the Murders That Stunned an Empire By Julie Kavanagh LR
December 1989 Issue George Stern Comforting View of the Corpse in the Pantry Written in Blood: A History of Forensic Detection By Colin Wilson LR
September 2019 Issue Stephen Bates Judge, Jury & Executioner Court Number One: The Old Bailey Trials That Defined Modern Britain By Thomas Grant LR
April 2019 Issue Jad Adams Sex Did Not Come into It The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper By Hallie Rubenhold
May 1993 Issue Claus Von Bulow Churchill Wanted to Hang Them Out of Hand The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials By Telford Taylor LR
September 2016 Issue Ted Vallance Thug Nation A Fiery & Furious People: A History of Violence in England By James Sharpe LR
March 2016 Issue Stephen Bates Arsenic in the Curry The Secret Poisoner: A Century of Murder By Linda Stratmann 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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