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Tuesday 7 October 2008

 

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A laughing cavalier

Bevis Hillier

1st October, 2008

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

A laughing cavalier

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 very slippery book

Allan Massie

1st October, 2008

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).

Getting even

Philip Hensher

24th September, 2008

Just Me by Sheila Hancock

That worthless piece of paper

Graham Stewart

24th September, 2008

Munich by David Faber

Meet the disposable family

Charlotte Moore

24th September, 2008

The Stepmother’s Diary by Fay Weldon

A furious, frazzled youth

Simon Baker

24th September, 2008

Indignation by Philip Roth

Out of the frying pan . . .

Judith Flanders

24th September, 2008

Stranger in the House: Women’s Stories of Men Returning from the Second World War by Julie Summers

A jealous addiction

Jerome de Groot

24th September, 2008

The Act of Love by Howard Jacobson

Slippery slopes

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

24th September, 2008

The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919 by Mark Thompson

Surprising literary ventures

Gary Dexter

24th September, 2008

Using the Oxford Junior Dictionary by Philip Pullman

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