Book reviewed in this issue
Rulers and Victims: the Russians in the Soviet UnionGeoffrey Hosking
Reviewed by Konstantin Eggert
The Belknap Press, £22.95
Tablet bookshop price £21.70
A Loeb Classical Library Reader
Reviewed by Anthony Lejeune
Harvard University Press, £6.95
Tablet bookshop price £6.30
Ordinary HeroesScott Turow
Reviewed by Michael McHale
Picador, £16.99
Tablet bookshop price £15.30
Dusty Warriors: modern soldiers at warRichard Holmes
Reviewed by Raymond Edwards
HarperCollins, £20
Tablet bookshop price £18
Naples: what most tourists never see
Reviewed by Isobel Alexander
Cybercom, £9.99
Tablet bookshop price £9
Tehran BluesKaveh Basmenji
Reviewed by Isobel Alexander
Saqi, £12.99
Tablet bookshop price £11.70
Alexandria: a city and myth Niall Finneran
Reviewed by Isobel Alexander
Tempus, £17.99
Tablet bookshop price £16.20
Previous weeks reviews
The Troublemaker: Michael Scott and his lonely struggle against injusticeAnne Yates and Lewis Chester
Reviewed by Piers McGrandle
Aurum, £14.99
Tablet bookshop price £13.50
Thomas Hardy: the guarded lifeRalph Pite
Reviewed by Robert Nye
Picador, £25
Tablet bookshop price £22.50
The Woman Who WaitedAndre Makine
Reviewed by David McLaurin
Sceptre, £12.99
Tablet bookshop price £11.70
Feed My Dear Dogs Emma Richler
Reviewed by Sara Allerton
Harper Perennial, £7.99
Tablet bookshop price £7.20
The Space Between Us Thrity Umrigar
Reviewed by Sara Allerton
Fourth Estate, £14.99
Tablet bookshop price £13.50
Where They Were Missed Lucy Caldwell
Reviewed by Sara Allerton
Penguin, £10.99
Tablet bookshop price £10