foreign parts
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Barnaby Crowcroft
Inside Qatar: Hidden Stories from One of the Richest Nations on Earth John McManus
26 Mark Galeotti
Putin: His Life and Times Philip Short
27 Stephen Vines
The Hong Kong Diaries Chris Patten
the atomic age
29
Philip Thomas
Atoms and Ashes: From Bikini Atoll to Fukushima Serhii Plokhy
31 John Gribbin
Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass Frank Close
art & music
32 Norma Clarke
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Revolution on Canvas: The Rise of Women Artists in London and Paris, 1760-1830 Paris A Spies-Gans
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Tanya Harrod How We Might Live: At Home with Jane and William Morris Suzanne Fagence Cooper
35
Igor Toronyi-Lalic
Sound within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century Kate Molleson
magic & folklore
36
Diane Purkiss The Penguin Book of Dragons Scott G Bruce (ed)
38
Alec Ryrie
Magic in Merlin’s Realm: A History of Occult Politics in Britain Francis Young
39
George Morris Queens of the Wild: Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe – An Investigation Ronald Hutton
general
41 Alex von Tunzelmann
The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells Sarah Churchwell
43
Joan Smith
The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century Louise Perry
44
Gordon Marsden Northerners: A History Brian Groom
46 Tim Richardson Napoleon’s Garden Island: Lost and Old Gardens of St Helena, South Atlantic Ocean Donal P McCracken
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Nigel Andrew An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us Ed Yong
cinema
48
Peter Conrad
The Big City Satyajit Ray (dir)
fiction
49
Ian Critchley
The War for Gloria Atticus Lish
50
Clare Clark
Dark Earth Rebecca Stott
51
Michael Eaude
Goodbye, Ramona Montserrat Roig
52
James Purdon
Stretto David Wheatley
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J S Barnes Venomous Lumpsucker Ned Beauman
54
Claudia FitzHerbert Amy & Lan Sadie Jones
children’s books
54
Philip Womack
fiction in brief
56
Briefly, a Delicious Life Nell Stevens • The Twilight World Werner Herzog • After Sappho Selby Wynn Schwartz • The Last Blade Priest W P Wiles
crime
58
Natasha Cooper
silenced voices
60
Lucy Popescu
bookends
64
Adam Douglas Unveiling the Dark Lady of Trieste
competition
45
Fergus Butler-Gallie sets a monthly challenge
15
LR Bookshop
30
Letters
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