April 2024 Issue Rosa Lyster Two Sides to the Story The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting: How a Bunch of Rabble Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne’er-do-wells Concocted Creative Nonfiction By Lee Gutkind LR
April 2024 Issue Adrian Tinniswood Just My Type The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives By Adam Smyth LR
April 2019 Issue Clare Bucknell Thinkers & Drinkers The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age By Leo Damrosch
August 2018 Issue Frances Wilson A Place in the Sun The Warm South: How the Mediterranean Shaped the British Imagination By Robert Holland
September 1994 Issue Camilla Dempster Pressing Flesh Parties: A Literary Comparion By Susanna Johnston LR
April 1994 Issue Patrick Marnham Neophytes’ Textbook Foreign Correspondent: Paris in the Sixties By Peter Lennon LR
December 2015 Issue Peter Washington Critical Thinking The Prose Factory: Literary Life in England Since 1918 By D J Taylor LR
October 2008 Issue Katherine Duncan-Jones As You Like Him Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare By Jonathan Bate LR
February 2013 Issue John Sutherland Nomenculture Literary Names: Personal Names in English Literature By Alastair Fowler 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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