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The Soviet Network - Stalin’s Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire by Antonia Senior ...

Following a chance conversation with a stranger in a London television studio in 2023, Radden Keefe picks up the unsolved ...

A Story of Power, Conflict and Couture by Justine Picardie; Dressing the Queen: Two Hundred Years of Makers and Monarchy by ...

Jobs and Wozniak may have subsequently gone legit, but for many early computer whizzes who did not enjoy the good fortune of ...

A Life by Sara Wheeler ...

What Country, Friends, Is This? - If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation by Daniel Hahn ...

Some while back, the literary biography industry slowed as it began to run out of subjects to write about. It found a new ...

The sky was as black as ink and we could scarcely see the lights of the disappearing port. A chill, damp wind whistled, yet we felt stifled by the heavy rain clouds above us. The crew had trooped onto ...

To Guardian readers, the premise of State of the Nation will come as no surprise. A history of British theatre since the war, it makes no mention of theatre in its main title, following Michael ...

Historians of Restoration London know John Ogilby (c 1600–1676) for the marvellous post-Fire survey of the capital that he produced with his step-grandson, William Morgan, which was published in 1677; ...

For those of us who lead lives of quiet desperation this book puts matters into perspective. The journalist Peter Zimonjic was on one of the three Tube trains – a bus was also blown up – bombed on 7 ...