THE STRANGE GENIUS OF JOHN SOANE

Asa Briggs scales SALISBURY's spire

ATATURK the Great Reformer Victor Klemperer's Last Diary Martin Gilbert's Final Volume Rising Scotland? Massie explains Collapsing Britain? Wheen demurs Godless Morality? Bishop Holloway gets a Grayling Lisa Jardine's Ingenious Pursuits * Matt Ridley's Clever Genes

GORGEOUS SAND * ANDREW MARVELLOUS Margaret Forster falls for Frank McCourt

Peter Porter appraises Alvarez Tim Rice the Nice * Logue the Rogue FICTION: Jim Crace, Roddy Doyle, Rose Tremain, Patrick McCabe, Tim Parks, Magnus Mills, Helen Dunmore, Giles Foden, Alessandro Baricco

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