October 2019 Issue A J Lees What’s in the 7 Up? Lithium: A Doctor, a Drug, and a Breakthrough By Walter A Brown
April 2016 Issue Mike Jay You Talking to Me? The Voices Within: The History and Science of How We Talk to Ourselves By Charles Fernyhough LR
April 2015 Issue Daniel Pick Minds in Tumult Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine By Andrew Scull LR
September 2008 Issue John Cornwell Plastic Fantastic The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science By Norman Doidge 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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In the nine centuries since his death, El Cid has been presented as a prototypical crusader, a paragon of religious toleration and the progenitor of a united Spain.
David Abulafia goes in search of the real El Cid.
David Abulafia - Legends of the Phantom Rider
David Abulafia: Legends of the Phantom Rider - El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary by Nora Berend
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