R Aymond C Arr The Most Stimulating History Book I Have Read
this year is Niall Ferguson’s The War of the World (Penguin, £25). Its subtitle, ‘History’s Age of Hatred’, indicates its subject: the inhumanity of man to man, beginning with......
D. J. T Aylor Two Novels Which Went Inexplicably Missing...
the prize short-lists were Will Self’s The Book of Dave (Viking, £17.99) and Peter Vansittart’s Secret Protocols (Peter Owen, £18.50). Never having liked Self’s fiction in the......
C Aroline M Oorehead Two Very Different Books, One A...
other a history, but each one proof that good storytelling is a true art. Kate Grenville uses fiction in The Secret River (Canongate, £7.99) to recount the unhappy tale of......
F Erdinand M Ount After Tracking Down The Holy Grail In A
bank vault in Aberystwyth, it is hard to know what to do for an encore. But Byron Rogers has found the perfect elusive quarry in the poet R. S. Thomas, the Welsh poet who wasn’t......
Martell’s Country Weblogger Explains...
Winter walks Hello! Welcome to my diary of the delicious and divine. The everyday and exciting. Take the weekend... Geoff has invited Lucy and John up to the cottage for the......
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