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Awaiting the Twelfth Imam
The Persians: ancient, mediaeval and modern Iran Free Article
Homa Katouzian
Reviewed by Robert Carver


The Plot: a biography of an English acre
Madeleine Bunting
Reviewed by Ann Wroe


The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham
Selina Hastings
Reviewed by Lucy Lethbridge


Amulet
Roberto Bolaño (trans. Chris Andrews)
Reviewed by Ian Thompson


Against Innocence: Gillian Rose’s reception and gift of faith
Andrew Shanks
Reviewed by Miranda Seymour


Previous weeks reviews


Midsummer Nights Free Article
Jeanette Winterson
Reviewed by Sue Gaisford

It ain't necessarily so
The invention of the Jewish people Free Article
Shlomo Sand
Reviewed by Emma Klein


Opera for Everybody
Susie Gilbert
Reviewed by Michael White


The Infinities
John Banvile
Reviewed by Susie Feay


Forbidden Fruit: a history of women and books in art
Christiane Inmann
Reviewed by Lynn Roberts


The Devil is a Gentleman: the life and times of Dennis Wheatley
Phil Baker
Reviewed by Michael Barber

Trajectory of a literary dynamo
Charles Dickens Free Article
Michael Slater
Reviewed by P J Kavanagh


Keepers of the Keys of Heaven
Roger Collins
Reviewed by Michael Walsh


A History of the Popes
John W O'Malley SJ
Reviewed by Michael Walsh


Magnetic North: notes from the Arctic Circle
Sara Wheeler
Reviewed by Adrian Brewer


Lustrum
Robert Harris
Reviewed by Anthony Lejeune


The Secret History of Georgian London: how the wages of sin shaped the capital
Dan Cruickshank
Reviewed by Timothy Brittain-Catlin


Tormented Hope: nine hypochondriac lives
Brian Dillon
Reviewed by Catherine Nixey


The Rivers of Heaven
Anthony Gardner
Reviewed by Yvone Cassidy


Trotsky: a biography
Robert Service
Reviewed by


Eden to Armageddon: World War I in the Middle East
Roger Ford
Reviewed by David Goodall

Far-off fields of conflict
Wings Over the Desert Free Article
Desmond Seward
Reviewed by David Goodall


Drawing Fire: the diary of a Great War soldier and artist
Len Smith
Reviewed by Sue Gaisford


Christ and Evolution: wonder and wisdom
Celia Deane-Drummond
Reviewed by Ursula King


Peace
Richard Bausch
Reviewed by Kathy Watson


Howards End is on the Landing: a year of reading from home
Susan Hill
Reviewed by Catherine Nixey

Shooting star of the Renaissance
Titian: the last days Free Article
Mark Hudson
Reviewed by Lynn Roberts


Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the secrets of Brideshead
Paula Byrne
Reviewed by Michael Barber


Conspirator: Lenin in exile
Helen Rappaport
Reviewed by Jonathan Wright


Boyle: between God and science
Michael Hunter
Reviewed by Brian Morton


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