September 2021 Issue Nigel Andrew What Will Survive of Us? A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters By Henry Gee
December 2018 Issue Robert Mayhew When Terminator Pigs Roamed Europe: A Natural History By Tim Flannery LR
June 2015 Issue Charles Elliott Sunken Swallows A Natural History of English Gardening 1650–1800 By Mark Laird LR
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February 2008 Issue Patricia Fara A Storehouse of Ideas Dry Store Room No 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum By Richard Fortey LR
May 2014 Issue Alexandra Harris It Was a Dark and Stormy Night… Tambora: The Eruption that Changed the World By Gillen D’Arcy Wood LR
July 2012 Issue David Profumo Moby Yuck Floating Gold: A Natural (and Unnatural) History of Ambergris By Christopher Kemp LR
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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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