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Saturday 11 October 2008

 

The latest culture as recommended by our staff

Michael Henderson

Michael Henderson suggests


A criminal waste

Graham Stewart

28th November, 2007

The Road to Southend Pier by Ross Clark

A Poem

28th November, 2007

Alan Brownjohn

A long way from Rome

Adrian Goldsworthy

28th November, 2007

Caesar: A Life in Western Culture by Maria Wyke

His own short story

Charlotte Mitchell

28th November, 2007

The Unbearable Saki: The Work of H. M. Munro by Sandie Byrne

A false dawn

Frank Field

28th November, 2007

Best for Britain? The Politics and Legacy of Gordon Brown by Simon Lee

The parent trap

Charlotte Moore

28th November, 2007

Slam by Nick Hornby

The call of the wild

Oliver Gilmour

28th November, 2007

Sibelius by Andrew Barnett

Sinister levity of an all-seeing spider

Richard Shone

28th November, 2007

Edward Burra: The Twentieth-Century Eye by Jane Stevenson

Disgusted of Donegal

Patrick Skene Catling

28th November, 2007

Asking for Trouble by Patricia Craig

The loss of enchantment

Nicholas Harman

28th November, 2007

The Magic Circle: Performing Magic Through the Ages by Michael Bailey

A very English domesticity

Simon Baker

28th November, 2007

Collected Poems by Anthony Thwaite

Alternative reading

Gary Dexter

28th November, 2007

Gary Dexter

Books of the Year

Spectator reviewers

21st November, 2007

A further selection of the best and worst books of the year, chosen by some of our regular contributors

The volcano’s resonant rumble

Sam Leith

21st November, 2007

Ezra Pound, Volume I by A. David Moody

Lives less ordinary

Rupert Christiansen

21st November, 2007

Modernism: The Lure of Heresy by Peter Gay

Portrait of a lady

Raymond Carr

21st November, 2007

Clarissa Eden: A Memoir From Churchill to Eden by Clarissa Eden, edited by Cate Haste

Inscrutable lords of the deep

Sarah Burton

21st November, 2007

Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America by Eric Jay Dolin

No simple solutions

Anthony Daniels

21st November, 2007

The Invisible Cure by Helen Epstein

Borders of the possible

Stephen Abell

21st November, 2007

Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon

A choice of crime novels

Andrew Taylor

21st November, 2007

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