March 2023 Issue Robert Bickers Slow Boat to China Chinese Dreams in Romantic England: The Life and Times of Thomas Manning By Edward Weech LR
September 2020 Issue Bijan Omrani River Deep, Mountain High Himalaya: A Human History By Ed Douglas The Frozen River: Seeking Silence in the Himalaya By James Crowden LR
April 2003 Issue Jonathan Mirsky One Man and His Lama Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History By Patrick French LR
June 2008 Issue Jonathan Mirsky Sky Burials in the Land of the Snows A Year in Tibet: A Voyage of Discovery By Sun Shuyun Holder of the White Lotus: The Lives of the Dalai Lama By Alexander Norman The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama By Pico Iyer 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.
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In the nine centuries since his death, El Cid has been presented as a prototypical crusader, a paragon of religious toleration and the progenitor of a united Spain.
David Abulafia goes in search of the real El Cid.
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David Abulafia: Legends of the Phantom Rider - El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary by Nora Berend
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