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Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this issue

The Invention of Air: an experiment, a journey, a new country and the amazing force of scientific discovery
Steven Johnson
Reviewed by Catherine Nixey
Penguin, £9.99
Tablet bookshop price £9

Dear Mr Bigelow: a transatlantic friendship
Frances Woodsford
Reviewed by Mary Blanche Ridge
Chatto & Windus, £15.99
Tablet bookshop price £14.40

The Defence of the Realm: the authorised history of MI5
Christopher Andrew
Reviewed by Jimmy Burns
Allen Lane, £30
Tablet bookshop price £27

The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov, read by Julian Rhind-Tutt
Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs
Naxos, £45.50
Tablet bookshop price £41

Joseph Severn, a Life: the rewards of friendship
Sue Brown
Reviewed by Ann Wroe
Oxford University Press, £30
Tablet bookshop price £27

Talking About Detective Fiction
P.D. James
Reviewed by
The Bodleian Library, £12.99
Tablet bookshop price £11.70


Previous weeks reviews

Holy Warriors: a modern history of the Crusades
Jonathan Phillips
Reviewed by Christopher Allmand
The Bodley Head, £20
Tablet bookshop price £18

The Best by Miles
Miles Kington
Reviewed by Tim Heald
Old Street Publishing, £12.99
Tablet bookshop price £11.70

The Making of the British Army
Allan Mallinson
Reviewed by John Jolliffe
Bantam Press, £20
Tablet bookshop price £18

The Great Silence 1918-1920: living in the shadow of the Great War
Juliet Nicolson
Reviewed by Isabel Quigly
John Murray, £20
Tablet bookshop price £18

Invisible
Paul Auster
Reviewed by Bernard Manzo
Faber&Faber, £16.99
Tablet bookshop price £15.30

The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy
Translated by Cathy Porter
Reviewed by C.J. Schler
Alma Books, £20
Tablet bookshop price £18

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