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History Parade
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In the big chair
Even those of us of a conservative bent hoped that the election of the Rudd government in 2007 would constitute…
History Parade
We left the Scout hut shortly after dark, to ambush regulars acting as invaders. Later, there was to be a…
Title Stories: My Man Jeeves By P.G. Wodehouse
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History Parade
We left the Scout hut shortly after dark, to ambush regulars acting as invaders. Later, there was to be a…
Title Stories: My Man Jeeves By P.G. Wodehouse
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The Grand Disturber
Napoleon’s exploits may have captured the world’s imagination, but the great European drama, played out over 20 years, was ultimately tawdry and pointless, says David Crane
Derring dos and don’ts
Recent years have seen the slim but splendid Patrick Leigh Fermor oeuvre swell considerably. In 2008 came In Tearing Haste,…
Title Stories: The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M Cain
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A memoir of love and loss
In a varied career, the actress Kika Markham has regularly played real-life charcters, including, on television, Mrs Thatcher — piquant…
Under cover in the underworld
W.H. Auden was addicted to detective fiction. In his 1948 essay ‘The Guilty Vicarage’, he analysed the craving, which he…
Finding a new way to live
In Colm Tóibín’s much-loved 2009 novel Brooklyn, Eilis Lacy, somewhat to her own surprise, leaves 1950s Enniscorthy (Tóibín’s own home…
The greatest living Yorkshireman
After 13 barren years Yorkshire is back at the top of county cricket, where Geoffrey Boycott believes it has a…
Ashes to ashes
The ash tree may lack the solidity of oak, the magnificence of beech or the ancient mystique of yew. In…
Perils of a charmed life
In these diaries, which I found excellent in a very specific way, Michael Palin tells us about his life between…
Practically perfect in every way
If there were a harvest festival to honour the bounty of the autumnal book crop, the choir would be in…
Dirty dealing
Jonathan Powell is best known as Tony Blair’s fixer. He was intimately involved with the Northern Ireland peace process, about…
The Afterlives of the Anarchists
Those staples in their foursquare silver strips Stacked upwards like some brutalist Manhattan office block Were teased apart by fingertips…
Kissing cousins
Even ardent Mitfordians must quake at the sight of yet another biography of the sisterhood. There have been more forests…
A series of impressionist strokes
When she was four, Anne Sinclair had her portrait painted by Marie Laurencin. It is a charming picture, a little…
Make or break
Us, David Nicholls’s first novel since the hugely successful One Day, is about a couple who have been married for…
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Racy reading
In a field which is often characterised by polemics and hand-wringing, Noel Pearson has emerged as both a considered thinker…
The Afterlives of the Anarchists
Those staples in their foursquare silver strips Stacked upwards like some brutalist Manhattan office block Were teased apart by fingertips…
