February 2009 Issue Hazhir Teimourian The Caliphate Strikes Back Khomeini’s Ghost: Iran since 1979 By Con Coughlin LR
October 2007 Issue Donald Rayfield The Russian Dispossessed The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia By Orlando Figes The Voices of the Dead: Stalin’s Great Terror in the 1930s By Hiroaki Kuromiya LR
December 2011 Issue Brendan Simms Dire Straits The Russian Origins of the First World War By Sean McMeekin LR
December 2011 Issue Christopher Andrew For Your Eyes Only Spies and Commissars: Bolshevik Russia and the West By Robert Service LR
May 2012 Issue Caroline Moorehead Judgement Day in Cambodia Facing the Torturer: Inside the Mind of a War Criminal By François Bizot (Translated by Charlotte Mandell & Antoine Audouard) 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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