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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

Gunboat diplomacy<br />

Gunboat diplomacy

28 January 2012

Blue-Water Empire: The British in the Mediterranean since 1800

Robert Holland

Reviewed by Philip Mansel

Categories: Book review , Britain , British empire , British history , History , Mediterranean , Non-fiction

...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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