July 1999 Issue Brenda Maddox The Woman Behind the Wheel Véra (Mrs Véra Nabokov): Portrait of a Marriage By Stacy Schiff
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February 2019 Issue Catherine Brown She Had Sweets Named After Her Teffi: A Life of Letters and of Laughter By Edythe Haber LR
July 1997 Issue Nikolai Tolstoy A Genial Man Despite His Humble Origins Anton Chekhov: A Life By Donald Rayfield LR
February 1998 Issue A N Wilson He Dared to Tell Them their History, Now Forgotten Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in His Life By D M Thomas LR
November 1990 Issue Paul Taylor Before He Went to Live on the Mountain Top Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years By Brian Boyd LR
May 2015 Issue Donald Rayfield More Peter than Judas Tolstoy’s False Disciple: The Untold Story of Leo Tolstoy and Vladimir Chertkov By Alexandra Popoff LR
July 2004 Issue Robert Chandler Son Of The Steppe Chekhov: Scenes From A Life By Rosamund Bartlett LR
November 2010 Issue Donald Rayfield Farmer, Novelist, Guru, Ascetic Tolstoy: A Russian Life By Rosamund Bartlett LR
July 2013 Issue Donald Rayfield His Master’s Voice Diaries and Selected Letters By Mikhail Bulgakov (Edited & translated by Roger Cockrell) 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.
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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