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On stage from the start

Sam Leith

8th October, 2008

Henry: Virtuous Prince by David Starkey

The man with the Midas touch

Anthony Beachey

8th October, 2008

The Snowball by Alice Schroeder

A choice of crime novels

Andrew Taylor

8th October, 2008

The Spies of Warsaw by Alan Furst

Living with a dark horse

Jane Ridley

8th October, 2008

The Horsey Life by Simon Barnes

Surprising literary ventures

Gary Dexter

8th October, 2008

So You Want to Try Drugs? by Fiona Foster and Alexander McCall Smith

The Best of Punch Cartoons

Michael Heath

8th October, 2008

The Best of Punch Cartoons by Helen Walasek

Terrors of the imagination

Paul Binding

8th October, 2008

The Beacon by Susan Hill

A laughing cavalier

Bevis Hillier

1st October, 2008

Cartoons and Coronets: The Genius of Osbert Lancaster by James Knox

Morality tale with a difference

Honor Clerk

1st October, 2008

A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré

A safe pair of hands

Robert Salisbury

1st October, 2008

A Political Suicide: The Conservatives’ Voyage into the Wilderness by Norman Fowler

Diving into darkness

Robert Macfarlane

1st October, 2008

Connemara: The Last Pool of Darkness by Tim Robinson

Carrie on shopping

Melissa Kite

1st October, 2008

One Fifth Avenue by Candace Bushnell

Unruly children as parents

Geordie Greig

1st October, 2008

Starstruck by Cosmo Landesman

The pragmatic approach

Jonathan Sumption

1st October, 2008

What Next? Surviving the Twenty-first Century by Chris Patten

The Half

Mark Amory

1st October, 2008

The Half: Photographs of Actors Preparing for the Stage by Simon Annand

The end of old Labour

Alan Watkins

1st October, 2008

Downing Street Diary: With James Callaghan in No.10 by Bernard Donoughue

Of cabbages and kings

Jonathan Bate

1st October, 2008

Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition by Robert Pogue Harrison

Back to simplicity

Colin Amery

1st October, 2008

Mlinaric on Decorating by Mirabel Cecil and David Mlinaric

Stage-effects in earnest

M. R. D. Foot

1st October, 2008

Churchill’s Wizards by Nicholas Rankin

A review of another biography of that tiresome poser, Lady Hester Stanhope, sent me back to Kinglake’s Eothen and the account of the visit he paid the Queen of the Desert, who dwelt in tents (as he found she didn’t) and reigned over wandering Arabs (which wasn’t the case either).