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June 29, 2015

Classics Reissued: A Legacy

June 29, 2015/ Robert Minto

Sybille Bedford's great novel - now in a pretty reprint from the New York Review of Books - has the sweep of Edward Gibbon and the emotional vitality of Jane Austen. Robert Minto takes a new look at a classic.

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June 29, 2015/ Robert Minto/
Fiction
fiction, June 2015
June 29, 2015

Book Review: People of the Songtrail

June 29, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

Fifteen hundred years ago, the inhabitants of northeastern Canada encounter intruders from over the sea: Vikings

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Fiction
fiction, June 2015
June 27, 2015

Book Review: The Melody Lingers On

June 27, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A rich investment swindler disappears on his boat - and with a great chunk of his ill-gotten gains - and the plot is afoot in the latest thriller from Mary Higgins Clark

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Fiction
fiction, June 2015
June 24, 2015

Book Review: Domesticated

June 24, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

Tens of thousands of years ago, humans domesticated canines and thereby changed the dynamics of life on earth - a change humanity then continued by domesticating other species. A fascinating new book details the process

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June 2015
June 24, 2015

Book Review: The Upright Thinkers

June 24, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

Millions of years ago, hominids began walking upright - thus expanding their field of view and freeing their hands for mischief and took-making. A new book celebrates the result.

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June 2015
June 24, 2015

In Paperback: Human Universe

June 24, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

Now in paperback in the US: the companion book to the popular BBC science program hosted by physicist Brian Cox

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June 24, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
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June 2015
June 23, 2015

James Horner

June 23, 2015/ Open Letters Monthly

James Horner

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June 2015
June 20, 2015

Book Review: Byron's Letters & Journals

June 20, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

Byron the poet was also Byron the prolific correspondent and diarist, as a generous and learned new collection amply demonstrates

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fiction, June 2015
June 19, 2015

Book Review: How Britain Saved the West

June 19, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

For a key interval in 1940, Britain stood alone against the might of Nazi Germany at its peak - and that familiar story of determination and ultimate victory is the subject of Robin Prior's new book

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June 2015, WWII
June 18, 2015

Book Review: The World Beyond Your Head

June 18, 2015/ Robert Minto

The "ecologies of attention and action" form the dynamic heart of philosopher Matthew Crawford's new book. Robert Minto reviews.

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June 18, 2015/ Robert Minto/
Arts & Life
June 2015, philosophy
June 18, 2015

Book Review: The Change

June 18, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

In a generous new anthology, a group of talented authors tells stories set in the "Emberverse" of S. M. Stirling - an Earth where all technology has abruptly stopped working

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June 18, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Science Fiction
fiction, June 2015, s- m- stirling
June 17, 2015

Book Review: Margaret of Anjou

June 17, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

In Iggulden's ongoing series about the Wars of the Roses, England's Queen Margaret struggles to hold onto her power - and her life - even as her husband the king slips in and out of sanity

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June 17, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Fiction
fiction, June 2015
June 17, 2015

Book Review: In the Unlikely Event

June 17, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A New Jersey town repeatedly struck by falling planes is the setting for Judy Blume's new book

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Fiction
fiction, June 2015
June 16, 2015

Book Review: Charles I & The People of England

June 16, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

How did the dynamics of kingship apply to a distant and socially maladroit little creature like King Charles I? A terrific new book looks at personality and power in the Stuart era

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June 2015
June 16, 2015

Book Review: Storm and Steel

June 16, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A former slave in a brutal empire is now wielding both political and magical power the second volume in Jon Sprunk's hugely enjoyable "Book of the Black Earth" series

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Science Fiction
fiction, June 2015
June 15, 2015

Book Review: Death and Mr. Pickwick

June 15, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

An ambitious debut novel explores the world that gave birth to the meteoric career of Charles Dickens and his lesser-known competitors

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Fiction
fiction, June 2015
June 15, 2015

Book Review: Nixon's Nuclear Specter

June 15, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

At the height of the Vietnam War, President Nixon engaged in an incredibly risky game of nuclear brinksmanship - a richly-researched new book tells the story

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June 2015, Vietnam
June 13, 2015

Book Review: Yanks in the RAF

June 13, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

While America was still technically neutral in Great Britain's fight against Germany, a handful of American flyers traveled to England and volunteered to fly in the RAF - a fascinating new book tells their story

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June 13, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
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June 2015, Second World War
June 12, 2015

Book Review: Multitudinous Heart

June 12, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A sumptuous new bilingual edition of the great Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade

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June 12, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
Poetry
June 2015, Poetry
June 12, 2015

Book Review: The Islanders

June 12, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A woman dies in Versailles, and her death sets in motion a tangled plot connecting a small group of people in this 2010 novel by Pascal Garnier

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fiction, June 2015
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