August 2021 Issue Fergus Butler-Gallie Fornicating Under Consent of King Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter – Then, Now, and Forever By John McWhorter
October 2008 Issue David Profumo Lost in Translation Stop Me If You’ve Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes By Jim Holt LR
February 2005 Issue Diarmaid Ó Muirithe Towers of Babel Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World By Nicholas Ostler LR
April 2005 Issue Nicholas Bagnall More than Words Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World By Henry Hitchings LR
September 2012 Issue Harry Mount Alphabet Soup Spell it out: the singular story of English spelling By David Crystal 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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Rosa Lyster: Kiss of Death - Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
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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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