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Friday 9 January 2009

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The latest culture as recommended by our staff

Peter Hoskin

Pete suggests


A grand overview

Anita Brookner

12th December, 2008

Paintings in Proust by Eric Karpeles

The secrets of Room 40

Alan Judd

12th December, 2008

‘Blinker’ Hall, Spymaster by David Ramsay

Beyond the wildest dreams

William Leith

12th December, 2008

Collections of Nothing by William Davies King

A balancing act

P.J. Kavanagh

12th December, 2008

English Catholic Heroes by John Jolliffe (editor)

Photopoetry

Patrick Marnham

12th December, 2008

Photopoetry by Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Unkind hearts and Jews

Simon Heffer

12th December, 2008

Israel Rank by Roy Horniman

Beautiful, dandified detachment

Fionn Morgan

12th December, 2008

Fionn Morgan remembers her friend Peter Quennell, writer, editor and former contributor to The Spectator

Boldly for restoration

Byron Rogers

10th December, 2008

Wales by Simon Jenkins

Dark and creepy

William Leith

10th December, 2008

The Folio Book of Historical Mysteries by Ian Pindar (editor)

The devil’s work

Andro Linklater

10th December, 2008

Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth by Margaret Atwood

Children’s books for Christmas

Juliet Townsend

10th December, 2008

Juliet Townsend reviews a selection of Christmas books

Memoirs of the Great War

Hugh Cecil

10th December, 2008

Survivors of a Kind by Brian Bond

Life & Letters

Allan Massie

10th December, 2008

Not quite one of the masters

The view from the middle lane

Michael Cockerell

3rd December, 2008

The Hugo Young Papers: Thirty Years of British Politics - Off the Record by Hugo Young, edited by Ion Trewin

Living the legend

Jonathan Keates

3rd December, 2008

My Judy Garland Life by Susie Boyt

But where is Colonel Blimp?

Rupert Christiansen

3rd December, 2008

The Triumph of Music by Tim Blanning

Saints and sinners

Elfreda Pownall

3rd December, 2008

With the publication of their Christmas cookery books, Nigella, Jamie, Delia and Gordon all have a brand image, or a halo, to polish.

At Home in Turkey

Jason Goodwin

3rd December, 2008

At Home in Turkey by Solvi dos Santos and Berrin Torolsan

Dirty diggers

Justin Marozzi

3rd December, 2008

The Buddha & Dr Fuhrer by Charles Allen

A rose-tinted view of the bay

Barry Unsworth

3rd December, 2008

The Ancient Shore by Shirley Hazzard and Francis Steegmuller

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