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Friday 5 December 2008

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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

The view from the middle lane

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

Humph swings

Patrick Skene Catling

3rd December, 2008

Last Chorus: An Autobiographical Medley by Humphrey Lyttleton

Differences and similarities

Colin Amery

3rd December, 2008

West Workroom towards a new sobriety in architecture theory + practice by Paolo Conrad-Bercah+w office (including contributions from Daniel Sherer, Pierluigi Panza and George Baird)

Surprising literary ventures

Gary Dexter

3rd December, 2008

Willy and the Killer Kipper(1981) by Jeffrey Archer

Stars bright and dim

Philip Hensher

26th November, 2008

State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America by Edited by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey

The spice of danger

David Crane

26th November, 2008

From the Front Line: Family Letters & Diaries, 1900 to the Falklands & Afghanistan by Hew Pike

Gruff Justice

Roger Lewis

26th November, 2008

James Robertson Justice: What’s the Bleeding Time? by James Hogg, with Robert Sellers and Howard Watson

Chalk and cheese

Raymond Carr

26th November, 2008

The British in France: Visitors and Residents since the Revolution by Peter Thorold

Highs and lows on the laughometer

Bevis Hillier

26th November, 2008

Just What I Always Wanted: Unwrapping the World’s Most Curious Presents by Robin Laurance

The done thing

Margaret MacMillan

26th November, 2008

The Politics of Official Apologies by Melissa Nobles

Not just Hitler

Edward Harrison

26th November, 2008

The Third Reich at War, 1939-1945 by Richard L. Evans

Deadlier than the male

Andrew Taylor

26th November, 2008

When does a novel stop being a novel and become a crime story? It’s often assumed that there is an unbridgeable gap between them, but that’s not necessarily so.

The power of the evasive word

Michael Howard

26th November, 2008

The Economist Book of Obituaries by Keith Colquhoun and Ann Wroe

How to write a wrong

Allan Massie

26th November, 2008

‘When young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of Hate, Suspicion and Despair, all the Love in the world will not wholly take away that knowledge.’

Books Of The Year

The Spectator

19th November, 2008

A further selection of the best and worst books of 2008 , chosen by  some of our regular reviewers

The Spectator Parliamentarian Awards
Spectator Book Club
The Spectator Billabong
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