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Book Reviews by subject: Myths & Folklore & 19th Century April 2014 Issue Amanda Craig No Fairy-Tale Ending Hans Christian Andersen: European Witness By Paul Binding LR ...

Book Reviews by subject: True Crime & Myths & Folklore March 2004 Issue Tim Heald Pub Idol Dick Turpin: The Myth of the English Highwayman By James Sharpe LR ...

Tim Whitmarsh: Roots of The Republic - Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece’s Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophical Masterpiece by James Romm ...

Once upon a time, an ambitious ruler concerned about a rising power on the other side of the globe decided to place a puppet king on a nearby throne in a country that was beautiful, rich in natural ...

It wasn’t until 1825 that Pepys’s diary became available for the first time. How it was eventually decrypted and published is a story of subterfuge and duplicity. Kate Loveman tells the tale ...

D J Taylor: Out of Alexandria - Larry: A New Biography of Lawrence Durrell, 1912–45 by Michael Haag; The Durrells: The Story of a Family by Richard Bradford ...

Reviews of books by Mara van der Lugt From the February 2022 Issue Strife on Earth Dark Matters: Pessimism and the Problem of Suffering By Mara van der Lugt LR ...

A divorcee in her sixties named Rose travels to Almería to see a specialist, who may or may not be a quack, about a mystery ailment that may or may not be imagined. She is accompanied by her daughter, ...

One of the more peculiar experiences of my early twenties has been realising that my mother was also once a young woman and is neither infallible nor invulnerable. Coming of age has involved coming to ...

Book Reviews by subject: 19th Century & Britain & Charles Dickens April 1982 Issue Humphrey Carpenter The Elusive Charles Dickens Dickens: Interviews and Recollections By Philip Colins (ed) LR ...

Book Reviews by subject: Vladimir Nabokov & Literary life & Literature and Literary Criticism May 2017 Issue Mark Dunbar Stings Like a Butterfly The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End ...