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4 February 2012

The Spirit of the Game

Mihir Bose

Reviewed by Ed Smith

Categories: Book review , Non-fiction , Sport , Sport history

Talking tough

Justice and the Enemy: From the Nuremberg Trials to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

William Shawcross

Reviewed by Philip Ziegler

Categories: Al-Qaeda , Book review , History , Nazi , Non-fiction , War history

Making sense of a cruel world<br />

Making sense of a cruel world

4 February 2012

Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World

Simon Callow

Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

Reviewed by Judith Flanders

Categories: Book review , Dickens , Literature , Non-fiction

A choice of first novels

Mountains of the Moon

I.J. Kay

Alys, Always

Harriet Lane

The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals

Wendy Jones

Reviewed by Leyla Sanai

Categories: Book reviews , Fiction , First novels , Novel , Novelists

...by: Alain de Botton

Some porn: Modern Architecture since 1900, by William Curtis. Full of beautiful images and thought-provoking words.

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