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• A Modern Don Juan: Cantos for These Times by Divers Hands review – a fun Byron update

  21 Oct 2014: Nicholas Lezard’s paperback of the week: Rhyming ‘Minerva’s Owl’ with ‘Simon Cowell’, 15 poets have fun hauling Byron’s hero into the modern age

• The Fun Factory by Chris England review – Charlie Chaplin as the baddie

  17 Oct 2014: A brilliantly readable debut about music hall skulduggery and Fred Karno's famous theatrical troupe, writes James Smart

• The Downfall of Money: Germany's Hyperinflation and the Destruction of the Middle Class by Frederick Taylor – review

  17 Oct 2014:

  A powerful account of a frightening episode in European history, writes PD Smith

• The Peculiar Life of the Lonely Postman by Denis Thériault – review

  17 Oct 2014:

  There is a charming playfulness to Thériault's prose in this well-executed story of love found through letters and deception, writes WB Gooderham

• Memory Theatre by Simon Critchley review – horoscopes, death and The Eurovision Song Contest

  14 Oct 2014:

  Nicholas Lezard's choice: A philosopher's fiction debut is rich, profound and very funny

• The Danube: A Journey Upriver from the Black Sea to the Black Forest by Nick Thorpe – review

  10 Oct 2014: A vivid mix of geography, myths, natural history and human lives, writes PD Smith

• Time's Mistress by Steven Savile review – 13 stories of dark fantasy

  10 Oct 2014: With a flair for finding beauty in the macabre, Savile uses subtle horror to deliver poignant insights into love and humanity, writes Keith Brooke

• Francis Plug by Paul Ewen review – the Dennis Pennis of fiction

  10 Oct 2014: A wonderful survey of the strange world of famous authors by a fictional writer with a propensity for whisky-fuelled escapades, writes Jane Housham

• The Quick by Lauren Owen – review

  3 Oct 2014: This tale of posh clubbable vampires pitted against East End vampires moves along at a fair crack, writes Jane Housham

• Isle of Noises by Daniel Rachel – review

  3 Oct 2014:

  Digging beneath pop's sheen, this brilliant tome is as far from the snotty, gossipy stereotype of music journalism as it's possible to get. By James Smart

• Witches: James I and the English Witch Hunts – review

  30 Sep 2014: Nicholas Lezard's paperback of the week: Tracy Borman's study of the mysterious deaths at Belvoir Castle in 1613 casts light on the exploitation of credulity for political purposes

• Holiday review – Stanley Middleton's brilliant portrait of Britain in the 1970s

  27 Sep 2014:

  Nicholas Lezard's paperback of the week: The reissue of this 1974 Booker prizewinner reveals an observant, meticulous writer

• Earth vs. the Sci-Fi Filmmakers by Tom Weaver

  26 Sep 2014: A sparkling collection of interviews with everyone who is anyone in the world of B-movie sci-fi, writes PD Smith

• The Huguenots by Geoffrey Treasure – review

  26 Sep 2014: PD Smith on a richly detailed study of the politics and personalities of a religious minority

• Fatherland by Nina Bunjevac – review

  26 Sep 2014: Nina Bunjevac's second graphic novel does not shy away from brutality, and proves a fine introduction to the Balkans' troubled history. By James Smart

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