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Bloody Sunday: Truth, Lies and the Saville Inquiry

Douglas Murray

Reviewed by Melanie McDonagh

Categories: Civil Rights , Northern Ireland , Tony Blair

Journal of a disappointed man

Freud’s Couch, Scott’s Buttocks, Brontė’s Grave

Simon Goldhill

Reviewed by Lewis Jones

Categories: Cambridge , Shakespeare , Victorian

The heart of Hemingway

The heart of Hemingway

7 January 2012

Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, And Lost, 1934-1961

Paul Hendrickson

Reviewed by Sam Leith

Categories: Boat , Book review , Hemingway , Non-fiction , Sailing , Writers

When treason was the last resort

When treason was the last resort

7 January 2012

Blood Cries Afar: The Forgotten Invasion of England, 1216

Sean McGlynn

Reviewed by Dan Jones

Categories: Ancient history , Book review , History , 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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