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Friday 18 July 2008

 

The latest culture as recommended by our staff

Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill

Clemency suggests


Through the keyhole

William Leith

16th July, 2008

Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You by Sam Goslingby

Through the keyhole

Flowers of Scotland

Dinah Roe

16th July, 2008

The Lost Leader by Mick Imlah

The Pope was wrong

Andrew Roberts

16th July, 2008

Pius XII: The Hound of Hitler by Gerard Noel

Short and sweet

Andrew Roberts

16th July, 2008

Txting: The Gr8 Db8 by David Crystal

A lost painting in a crumbling mansion

Olivia Glazebrook

16th July, 2008

The Bellini Madonna by Elizabeth Lowry

No denying it

Alberto Manguel

16th July, 2008

The Spare Room by Helen Garner

A hostage to fortune

Jonathan Keates

16th July, 2008

One Morning in Sarajevo by David James Smith

The house that Jock built

James Fergusson

16th July, 2008

The Seven Lives of John Murray by Humphrey Carpenter, edited by Candida Brazil and James Hamilton

A Soho stalwart

Francis King

16th July, 2008

Selected Letters by by Julian Maclaren-Ross, edited by Paul Willetts

Last tales from the West

Sam Leith

9th July, 2008

The Lost Decade, Short Stories from Esquire, 1936-1941 by F. Scott Fitzgerald (edited by James L.W. West III)

A little goes a long way

Andro Linklater

9th July, 2008

The Importance of Being Trivial by by Mark Mason

Cheap and deadly

Jonathan Mirsky

9th July, 2008

The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage by Alexandra Harney

Another tragic Russian heroine

Simon Baker

9th July, 2008

Sashenka by Simon Montefiore

The sins of the son

Raymond Carr

9th July, 2008

The Assassin’s Accomplice by by Kate Clifford Larson

How many Russians does it take to change a lightbulb?

Victor Sebestyen

9th July, 2008

Hammer and Tickle: A History of Communism Told Through Communist Jokes by Ben Lewis

Gilding the lily

Molly Guinness

9th July, 2008

Warrior by Allan Mallinson

Dancing through danger

Olivia Cole

9th July, 2008

The Return by Victoria Hislop

Magic and laundry

S. E. G. Hopkin

9th July, 2008

House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones

Through a chink in the Iron Curtain

Michael Bourdeaux

9th July, 2008

Stalin’s Children: Three Generations of Love and War by Owen Matthews

Distinctions and likenesses

Philip Hensher

2nd July, 2008

House of Wits: An Intimate Portrait of the James Family by Paul Fisher

Wit and wisdom

William Skidelsky

2nd July, 2008

Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955 by edited by Edward Mendelson

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