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Title Stories: The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
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To my father, solicitor to the landed gentry
If you were still alive You would be ninety-six tomorrow. I think of you most days. Just now, for example,…
Title Stories: The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
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Apocalypse postponed
At the end of the 18th century, Britain shuddered in Boney’s shadow, living in constant expectation of invasion and occupation, says Nigel Jones
A box of squibs
Enough of big ideas and grand designs. Instead, here are 30 unusually small ideas from the giant pulsating brain of…
The burning issue of the age
Some reviewers are slick and quick. Rapid readers, they remember everything, take no notes, quote at will. I’m the plodding…
Memos to self
It would be perverse not to succumb to the temptation to write this review as a list. So, the first…
Say Cheese
Like many of my generation I was enchanted by the surrealistic irreverence of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, until I overheard…
The parlour-game approach
A group of retired Somerset farmers were sitting about in the early 1960s, so Ian Mortimer’s story goes, debating which…
She knows she is right
Shami Chakrabarti, director of the civil rights group Liberty and omnipresent media personality, is on the cover of her book.…
The latest horrific mutation
Following his beginnings as a science-fiction horror director, David Cronenberg has spent the past decades transforming himself into one of…
The ultimate comfort food
During the D-day landings, members of the parachute regiment, finding themselves behind enemy lines at night, needed a way of…
Madness in the ghetto
There are many more than seven killings in this ironically titled novel — in fact very long — that starts…
For the term of our unnatural lives
‘To die of age is a rare, singular and extra-ordinary death’, wrote Montaigne, ‘and so much less natural than others:…
Title Stories: The Wonderful Wizard of OZ by L. Frank Baum
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Title Stories: The Wonderful Wizard of OZ by L. Frank Baum
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Title Stories: The Wonderful Wizard of OZ by L. Frank Baum
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Cometh the hour, cometh the man
An eccentric, thoroughgoing genius, surfing every wave with a death-defying self-belief — Philip Hensher wonders who Boris Johnson can be thinking of
The Unbeaten vs the Unbeatable
The Kaiser’s war deprived Britain of her centenary celebrations of the victory at Waterloo. It also set the propagandists something…
Who did fall at the Reichenbach Falls?
Careful Sherlockians, on returning in adulthood to the four novels and 56 short stories that they devoured uncritically in their…
Title Stories: Doctor Faustus By Christopher Marlowe
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Dwelling in the past
In 1978, a family of Russian ‘Old Believers’ living in a supposedly uninhabited part of the Siberian taiga were discovered…
Cold cases warm up
‘And anything by Michael Connelly’ were the final words of advice from one of my best friends in discussing books…
Beyond satire
Jeff Koons is, by measures understood in Wall Street, the most successful living artist. But he’s a slick brand manager…
