February 1990 Issue David Chipp Chinese Whispers The Long March to the Fourth of June By Li Xiao Jun (Translated by E J Griffiths) LR
August 1992 Issue David Chipp Another Aged Survivor Lives to Tell the Tale The New Emperors: Mao and Deng - A Dual Biography By Harrison E Salisbury LR
May 2016 Issue Graham Hutchings Apocalypse Mao The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962–1976 By Frank Dikötter LR
August 2008 Issue Jonathan Mirsky Reforming Opinions The Battle for China's Past: Mao & the Cultural Revolution By Mobo Gao LR
October 2008 Issue Jonathan Mirsky Sore Feet, Heavenly Eyes China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation By Xinran (Translated by Esther Tyldesley, Nicky Harman and Julia Lovell) LR
November 2006 Issue Paul Johnson A Dance With the Devil Seize the Hour: When Nixon Met Mao By Margaret MacMillan LR
November 2012 Issue Steve Tsang Great Leap Backward Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao’s Great Famine By Yang Jisheng (Translated by Stacy Mosher & Guo Jian) LR
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson is practically a byword for old-fashioned Victorian grandeur, rarely pictured without a cravat and a serious beard.
Seamus Perry tries to picture him as a younger man.
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Seamus Perry: Before the Beard - The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science, and the Crisis of Belief by Richard Holmes
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Novelist Muriel Spark had a tongue that could produce both sugar and poison. It’s no surprise, then, that her letters make for a brilliant read.
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Claire Harman: Fighting Words - The Letters of Muriel Spark, Volume 1: 1944-1963 by Dan Gunn
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