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Thursday 4 December 2008

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Modern fusion architecture

Christopher Ondaatje

12th March, 2008

Beyond Bawa: Modern Masterworks of Monsoon Asia by David Robson, with photographs by Richard Powers

Running for shelter

Anthony Daniels

12th March, 2008

Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present by Lisa Appignanesi

No getting away from it

Simon Baker

12th March, 2008

Nothing to Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes

Putting the jackboot in

Caroline Moorehead

12th March, 2008

Italy’s Sorrow: A Year of War, 1944-45 by James Holland

For the greater glory of God and man

Rosemary Hill

12th March, 2008

The English Country House Chapel: Building a Protestant Tradition by Annabel Ricketts

And the Oscar goes to . . .

Frederic Raphael

12th March, 2008

Scenes from a Revolution by Mark Harris

The downfall of a pessimist

Ferdinand Mount

5th March, 2008

George Gissing: A Life by Paul Delaney

A tough assignment

Alan Judd

5th March, 2008

The Wildest Province: SOE in the Land of the Eagle by Roderick Bailey

Hazy like foothills

P.J. Kavanagh

5th March, 2008

Last Poems by James Michie

Remembering Anthony Blond

Gerard Noel

5th March, 2008

The publisher Gerard Noel pays tribute to his friend and author who died last week at the age of 79.

Keeping the bear at bay

Noble Frankland

5th March, 2008

Warsaw 1920: Lenin’s Failed Conquest of Europe by Adam Zamoyski

Flights of fancy

John McEwen

5th March, 2008

Birds by Katrina Cook

More down than up

Caroline Moore

5th March, 2008

Taking Pictures by Anne Enright

Small elephant at Dove Cottage

Victoria Glendinning

27th February, 2008

The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth by Frances Wilson

Plunging into the hurly-burly

Rupert Christiansen

27th February, 2008

The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross

Power to the people

Robert Stewart

27th February, 2008

God’s Fury, England’s Fire by Michael Braddick

The return of Kureishi-man

D.J. Taylor

27th February, 2008

Something to Tell You by Hanif Kureishi

An appeal from beyond the grave

Richard Beeston

27th February, 2008

Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West by Benazir Bhutto

Eye of newt and toe of frog aplenty

Mark Fisher

27th February, 2008

Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum by Richard Fortey

A time for resolutions

Allan Massie

27th February, 2008

Allan Massie on how book-lovers can cope with waning concentration

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