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Ugly old Europe

Lisbon: War in the Shadows of the City of Light, 1939-1945

Neill Lochery

Reviewed by David Crane

Categories: Book review , History , Lisbon , War , War history

Who’s the real monster?

Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood and Invented Modern Horror

Jason Zinoman

Reviewed by Thomas Hodgkinson

Categories: Book review , Film , Horror , Non-fiction

The shape of things to come

The shape of things to come

31 December 2011

Futurescapes: Designers for Tomorrow’s Outdoor Spaces

Tim Richardson

Drawing for Landscape Architecture: Sketch to Screen to Site

Edward Hutchison

Reviewed by Jane Brown

Categories: Architecture , Book review , Design , Non-fiction

The Devil in the mirror

The Locked Ward: Memoirs of a Psychiatric Orderly

Dennis O’Donnell

Reviewed by William Leith

Categories: Book review , Memoir , Mentall illness , Non-fiction , Psychiatric

Crusader on the attack

Crusader on the attack

31 December 2011

John Bright: Statesman, Orator, Agitator

Bill Cash

Reviewed by Jane Ridley

Categories: Book review , History , Non-fiction , Political history , Politics

Painful truths

Taking a Stand: The Evolution of Human Rights

Juan E. Méndez, with Marjorie Wentworth

Reviewed by Stuart Wheeler

Categories: Book review , Human Rights , Non-fiction

The Last Book I Read...

...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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