November 2024 Issue Nicholas McDowell Awake, Arise, or Be Forever Fallen What in Me is Dark: The Revolutionary Life of Paradise Lost By Orlando Reade
October 2021 Issue Roberta Klimt Paradise Reimagined Making Darkness Light: The Lives and Times of John Milton By Joe Moshenska LR
September 1998 Issue John Banville A Selfish Man Condemned to Live in Ireland Jonathan Swift By Victoria Glendinning
May 2015 Issue Blair Worden An Eie for Detail Brief Lives, with an Apparatus for the Lives of our English Mathematical Writers By John Aubrey (Edited by Kate Bennett) John Aubrey: My Own Life By Ruth Scurr LR
November 2004 Issue Anthony Sattin Walking the World Odd Tom Coryate: The English Marco Polo By R E Pritchard LR
August 2006 Issue Robert Nye A Notable Disliker Of Milk and Martyrdom John Donne: The Reformed Soul By John Stubbs 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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