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Philip Ziegler reviews Napoleon and Wellington by Andrew Roberts
Exploring the one-upmanship of two titans | |
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Mark Edmonds reviews Dot.bomb: the Rise and Fall of Dot.com Britain by Rory Cellan-Jones
On the revolution that turned into a rout | |
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| | How old bones came back to life
Anthony Daniels reviews The Molecule Hunt: Archaeology and the Search for Ancient DNA by Martin Jones
On the way molecular biology has resuscitated the seemingly dry-as-dust discipline of archaeology | |
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James Hall reviews In Ruins by Christopher Woodward
One devotee's attempt to explain the appeal of ruins | |
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Sinclair McKay reviews London in theTwentieth Century: a City and Its People by Jerry White
An optimistic book about London | |
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| | Sprinkling her husband's ashes over her plate
Jason Cowley reviews The Devil's Larder by Jim Crace
These stories about death and eating play on our infatuation with food, but they do not satisfy | |
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| | My life is becoming a Scrabble hell
Samantha Weinberg reviews Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players by Stefan Fatsis
A study of anagram-memorising misfits | |
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| | The original Lady Di
Kate Chisholm reviews Improper Pursuits: The Scandalous Life of Lady Di Beauclerk by Carola Hicks
A Life of Lady Di Beauclerk, née Spencer, artist and divorcee | |
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| | Make the detective fit the crime
by Susanna Yager
There's a murder and a sleuth to suit every taste among the best new crime fiction | |
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| | When God came to Lancashire
Edward Smith reviews Someone to Watch Over Me by Paul Wilson
A novel that is both convincing and surprising | |
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| | The alternatives to romance
Katie Owen reviews Off Keck Road by Mona Simpson
A loving portrait of small-town America | |
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| | The day of the softy
Charles Spencer reviews The Veteran and Other Stories by Frederick Forsyth
On Frederick Forsyth's surprisingly varied stories | |
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| | Lost souls
Daniel Johnson reviews The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village by Eamon Duffy
A monument to the numinous spirituality of our past | |
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| | Where's Gandhi?
Ralph Russell reviews The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature by Amit Chaudhuri ed
A long-overdue overdue anthology | |
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| | 'Mozart thinks of Mao'
Ruth Padel reviews Memories of a Pure Spring by Duong Thu Huong
A novel that was a Vietnamese bestseller before it was banned | |
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| | Winter tales
Patrick Gale reviews The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart
Two Canadian novels, both weighed down with garlands in their homeland | |
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| | Scents and sensibility
Rachel Cusk reviews Hound Music by Rosalind Belben
Two novels that explore the history of the British countryside | |
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| | Paperbacks
by Candida Clark
Our weekly round-up of the latest releases | |
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