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July 01, 2022 Nick Wallis – The Great Post Office Scandal: The fight to expose a multimillion pound IT disaster which put innocent people in jail
Nick Wallis – Bath Publishing – £25 It is the biggest miscarriage of justice in British legal history. Hundreds of innocent people prosecuted, ruined, often imprisoned – their lives destroyed. And hundreds more dismissed from their jobs and their livelihoods, … Continue reading →
40 min
April 13, 2022 Rachel Gross – Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage
Rachel Gross – W W Norton – £19.99 There comes a time in every woman’s life when her body bumps up against the limits of human knowledge. In that moment, she sees herself as medicine has seen her: a mystery. … Continue reading →
28 min
March 10, 2022 Howard Jacobson – Mother’s Boy: A Writer’s Beginnings
Howard Jacobson – Jonathan Cape – £18.99 It is striking that one of our finest novelists didn’t publish his first novel until he was nearly forty, and characteristically, he was ticking off literature’s late starters as he passed them by. … Continue reading →
36 min
February 20, 2022 Simon Mason – A Killing In November
Simon Mason – Riverrun – £14.99 A beautiful girl is strangled in the Provost’s lodge in an Oxford College while the college is shmoozing a billionaire Emirati. It is a situation which calls for delicate handling, so it is perhaps … Continue reading →
21 min
January 30, 2022 Dr Thomas Halliday – Otherlands: A World in the Making
Dr Thomas Halliday – Allen Lane – £20 Otherlands is a kind of travel book, traveling in time and across the globe, pushing back through the last half-billion years, showing you ever stranger beasts and more and more unfamiliar landscapes. … Continue reading →
24 min
January 06, 2022 Robert J Lloyd – The Bloodless Boy
Robert J Lloyd – Melville House Press – £18.99 In 1678 London was rebuilding after the Great Fire of London, just twelve years earlier. Among the great men undertaking this enterprise was Robert Hooke, who is a central character in … Continue reading →
27 min
November 05, 2021 Prof Francesca Stavrakopoulou – God An Anatomy
Professor Francesca Stavrakopoulou – Picador – £25 “Once upon a time, in the book of Genesis, humans were made in the visual image and likeness of God. It was a social, as well as a corporeal correspondence, celebrating both the … Continue reading →
31 min
October 15, 2021 Nicholas Wapshott – Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market
Nicholas Wapshott – W. w. Norton – £22.95 Not many academic economists are household names. But when I was young, Milton Friedman was. The high-priest of Monetarism and intellectual descendant of Friedrich Hayek, his theories were much admired by right-wing … Continue reading →
24 min
August 11, 2021 Robb Johnson – The People’s Republic of Neverland: The Child Versus The State
Robb Johnson – PM Books – £17.99
23 min
June 27, 2021 Alwyn Turner – All In It Together: England in the Early 21st Century
Alwyn Turner – Profile Books – £20
30 min

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An authoritative look at recent books that may or may not have shown up on your radar screen. Fiction and non-fiction. Biographies and comic books. Politics and the arts. And quite certainly, no…