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Sunday 6 July 2008

 

The latest culture as recommended by our staff

Liz Anderson

Liz suggests


Distinctions and likenesses

Philip Hensher

2nd July, 2008

House of Wits: An Intimate Portrait of the James Family by Paul Fisher

Wit and wisdom

William Skidelsky

2nd July, 2008

Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955 by edited by Edward Mendelson

Mad, bad and incompetent

Justin Cartwright

2nd July, 2008

Hitler’s Empire by Mark Mazower

Waves of geniality

D.J. Taylor

2nd July, 2008

Grub Street Irregular: Scenes from by Jeremy Lewis

A keen sense of duty

Leanda de Lisle

2nd July, 2008

Burghley: William Cecil at the Court of Elizabeth I by Stephen Alford

All you need to know about Wales

Byron Rogers

2nd July, 2008

The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales (English Version) by edited by John Davies, Nigel Jenkins, Menna Baines and Peredur Lynch

Getting to know the General

Carey Schofield

2nd July, 2008

A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif

Giacomo of all trades

Ben Wilson

25th June, 2008

Casanova: Actor, Spy, Lover, Priest by Ian Kelly

A futile solution

Caroline Moorehead

25th June, 2008

Journey to Nowhere: One Woman Looks for the Promised Land by Eva Figes

Truth is stranger than fiction

Jane Ridley

25th June, 2008

City of Thieves by David Benioff

Mudslinging in the groves of academe

Frederic Raphael

25th June, 2008

History Lesson: A Race Odyssey by Mary Lefkowitz

Variations on an enigma

Charlotte Hobson

25th June, 2008

Charlotte Hobson on Jonathan Dimbleby's account of Russia

Overstretched and over there

Douglas Hurd

25th June, 2008

Douglas Hurd on James Fergusson’s new book

Tangerine dreams

Francis King

25th June, 2008

Spirit of Tangier by Tessa Codrington

Not for insomniacs

Digby Durrant

25th June, 2008

Home Before Dark by Charles Maclean

Selective breeding

Victoria Glendinning

25th June, 2008

Growing Up in England: The Experience of Childhood, 1600-1914 by Anthony Fletcher

Too close for comfort

Mary Kenny

25th June, 2008

Spying on Ireland by Eunan O’Halpin

A true Renaissance man

Sarah Bradford

25th June, 2008

Magnifico by Miles J. Unger

Life and Letters

Allan Massie

25th June, 2008

The vanity of human hopes

Ruthless but ineffective

Jonathan Sumption

18th June, 2008

Gideon’s Spies: The Inside Story of Israel’s Legendary Secret Service, The Mossad by Gordon Thomas

A genius but not a hero

David Crane

18th June, 2008

Marlborough: England’s Fragile Genius by Richard Holmes

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