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Saturday 17 May 2008

Spectator 180th Anniversary Blog
 

The latest culture as recommended by our staff

Peter Hoskin

Pete suggests


The uneasy world between

Philip Hensher

12th March, 2008

Other People’s Daughters: The Life and Times of Governesses by Ruth Brandon

Is it worth the worry?

Matthew Parris

12th March, 2008

Panicology by Simon Briscoe and Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Love goes begging

Digby Durrant

12th March, 2008

A Partisan’s Daughter by Louis de Bernières

The county personified

Juliet Townsend

12th March, 2008

The Lord-Lieutenants and their Deputies by Miles Jebb

The short life and hard times of a mathematical genius

Alexander Masters

12th March, 2008

The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt

Always employ a slow bowler

David Crane

12th March, 2008

What Sport Tells Us About Life by Ed Smith

Princes, patriots and party-givers

Andro Linklater

12th March, 2008

Heroes: From Alexander the Great to Mae West by Paul Johnson

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

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