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Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill

Clemency suggests


A chilly professional

Jane Ridley

3rd September, 2008

The Forgotten Prime Minister: The 14th Earl of Derby by Angus Hawkins

A chilly professional

Bright sparks of the Dark Ages

Tom Holland

3rd September, 2008

Travelling Heroes: Greeks and Their Myths in the Epic Age of Homer by Robin Lane Fox

The iceman cometh

Sara Wheeler

3rd September, 2008

True North: Travels in Arctic Europe by Gavin Francis

A far cry from Paradise

Anita Brookner

3rd September, 2008

The Gate of Air: A Ghost Story by James Buchan

Rekindling life in a dead frame

Caroline Moore

3rd September, 2008

The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd

The châtelaine and the wanderer

Anne Chisholm

3rd September, 2008

In Tearing Haste: Letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor by Charlotte Mosley (editor)

Brave new writing

Richard Bradford

3rd September, 2008

Fifty years ago, Alan Sillitoe’s first novel, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, changed the history of English fiction. Richard Bradford explains how.

Life and Letters

Allan Massie

3rd September, 2008

Breaking the rules

The peculiarities of a realist

Philip Hensher

27th August, 2008

Fine just the way it is: Wyoming stories by Annie Proulx

Will he, won’t He?

Alexander Waugh

27th August, 2008

Ararat by Frank Westerman, translated by Sam Garrett

On a wing and a prayer

Byron Rogers

27th August, 2008

The Balloon Factory by Alexander Frater

Worldly and otherworldly

James Buchan

27th August, 2008

Stories by John Buchan, selected and introduced by Giles Foden

A new angle on autism

Charlotte Moore

27th August, 2008

Unstrange Minds by Roy Richard Grinker

Like father like son

Tom Holland

27th August, 2008

Phillip II of Macedonia by Ian Worthington

Who is selling what to whom?

Justin Cartwright

27th August, 2008

Powers of Persuasion: The Story of British Advertising by Winston Fletcher

The end of Eden

Fraser Nelson

27th August, 2008

Fishing in Utopia: Sweden and the Future that Disappeared by Andrew Brown

Night thoughts in an unhappy home

John de Falbe

27th August, 2008

Man in the Dark by Paul Auster

On home ground

Neil Clark

27th August, 2008

Neil Clark on Cyril Hare’s Tragedy at Law, first published in 1942.

Our modest contribution

Raymond Carr

20th August, 2008

St Petersburg and the British: The City Through the Eyes of British Visitors and Residents by Anthony Cross

His finest hour

Michael Howard

20th August, 2008

Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Dire Warning by John Lukacs

Muddying the waters

Sebastian Smee

20th August, 2008

Dreams of Rivers and Seas by Tim Parks

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