December 2015 Issue Jonathan Keates Escaping the Vicoli Genoa, ‘La Superba’: The Rise and Fall of a Merchant Pirate Superpower By Nicholas Walton LR
May 2015 Issue Felipe Fernández-Armesto Down by the Sea Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World By Noel Malcolm Peiresc’s Mediterranean World By Peter N Miller
November 2010 Issue Giles Milton Rise and Fall Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean By Philip Mansel LR
May 2008 Issue Jason Goodwin Pirate of the Middle Sea Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean 1521–1580 By Roger Crowley LR
December 2013 Issue Felipe Fernández-Armesto Med Men The Making of the Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean from the Beginning to the Emergence of the Classical World By Cyprian Broodbank 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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