September 2019 Issue Christian Goeschel Portraits in Tyranny How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century By Frank Dikötter LR
May 2003 Issue Richard Overy Poisonous TImes Stalin's Last Crime: The Doctors' Plot By Jonathan Brent & Vladimir P Naumov LR
August 2008 Issue Donald Rayfield The Monster Hedgehog Yezhov: The Rise of Stalin’s ‘Iron Fist’ By J Arch Getty & Oleg V Naumov 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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