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Book Reviews
Book reviewed in this issueOn RoyaltyJeremy Paxman
Reviewed by Ian Bradley Viking, £20
Tablet bookshop price £18 In Spite of the Gods: the strange rise of modern IndiaEdward Luce
Reviewed by David Goodall Little, Brown, £20
Tablet bookshop price £18 Private Battles: how the war almost defeated used. Simon Garfield
Reviewed by Lucy Lethbridge Ebury, £19.99
Tablet bookshop price £18 Sand in my Shoes: wartime diaries of a WAAFJoan Rice
Reviewed by Lucy Lethbridge HarperPress, £16.99
Tablet bookshop price £15.30 Waiting for Hitler: voices from Britain on the brink of invasionMidge Gillies
Reviewed by Lucy Lethbridge Hodder & Stoughton, £20
Tablet bookshop price £18 Charles Kennedy: a tragic flawGreg Hurst
Reviewed by Vincent McKee Politicos, £18.99
Tablet bookshop price £17.10 Irne Nmirovsky: her life and worksJonathan Weiss
Reviewed by Charlotte Wilkins Stanford University Press, £$24.95
Tablet bookshop price £ The Lady of the LandRichard Ford
Reviewed by Brendan Walsh Bloomsbury, £17.99
Tablet bookshop price £16.20 As They Say in ZanzibarDavid Crystal
Reviewed by Raymond Edwards Collins, £17.99
Tablet bookshop price £16.20 Gatty\s taleKevin Crossley-Holland
Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs Orion, £12.99
Tablet bookshop price £11.70 The Ladies of Grace AdieuSusanna Clarke
Reviewed by Melanie McDonagh Bloomsbury, £16.99
Tablet bookshop price £15.30 Things I Didn\t Know: a memoirRobert Hughes
Reviewed by John McEwen Harvill Secker, £25
Tablet bookshop price £22.50 Previous weeks reviewsThomas Becket and His Biographers Michael Staunton
Reviewed by Nicholas Vincent The Boydell Press, £45
Tablet bookshop price £40.50 The Invention of ChildhoodHugh Cunningham
Reviewed by Julian Margaret ibbs BBC Books, £18.99
Tablet bookshop price £17.20 My Mothers Lovers Christopher Hope
Reviewed by Piers McGrandle Atlantic, £14.99
Tablet bookshop price £13.50 The High Road to China: George Bogle, the Panchen Lama and the first British expedition to TibetKate Teltscher
Reviewed by Simon Scott Plummer Bloomsbury, £20
Tablet bookshop price £18 |