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22 Oct 2014:
From Roman legions to medieval mayhem, Cavaliers and Roundheads to the crushing of ideals in the 20th century, there is fertile ground for drama in civil war, writes Robert Wilton
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15 Oct 2014: From the architects who built the postwar world to the writers who predicted its horrors, John Grindrod selects the books that best evoke the postwar pioneering spirit
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8 Oct 2014:
From Hans Christian Andersen to Angela Carter’s Bloody Chamber, Marina Warner picks her favourite fairytales
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1 Oct 2014: Ireland’s unique countryside seeps into many great novels, becoming as much a character as any protagonist. Here are the top 10 rural Irish books, by Paul Charles
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25 Sep 2014: From Laurie Lee’s departure for Spain one sunny morning to Flora’s unfortunate sexual odyssey in Cold Comfort Farm, Duncan Minshull chooses the best literary journeys on foot
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17 Sep 2014:
From the Book of Ruth to Pride and Prejudice, here is Meike Ziervogel’s pick of literary mother-daughter relationships
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10 Sep 2014:
Author Barnaby Phillips chooses fiction and non-fiction that shows an often caricatured nation in all its rich variety
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3 Sep 2014: Dickens, Zola and early 20th-century timetables all transport the reader, finds novelist and railway fanatic Andrew Martin
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27 Aug 2014:
From Nabokov to Woolf to Coetzee, novelist Jonathan Gibbs selects the best imaginary lives presented as the real thing
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20 Aug 2014:
From the Restaurant at the End of the Universe to the cabman's shelter in Ulysses, chef and author Michael Gibney reviews the best eating and drinking in books
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13 Aug 2014:
From Robert Bloch's Psycho to Chekhov's Lady With the Dog, Mark Watson explores the magnetism of hotels for novelists
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6 Aug 2014:
From The Handmaid's Tale to Anna Karenina, novelist Bethan Roberts picks the best portrayals of an experience that is rarely portrayed in fiction
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30 Jul 2014: This week marks a century since the outbreak of the first world war. Chosen from 1,000 years of English writing about war, poet and Oxford professor Jon Stallworthy selects some of the best attempts to think through this most extreme of human experiences
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23 Jul 2014: From James Salter to Lorrie Moore and Patricia Highsmith, novelist Emma Straub is our guide for a tour of the best-imagined vacations
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16 Jul 2014:
From Saul Bellow to Philip Roth, novelist Andrew Rosenheim salutes the writers who have captured the beauty, and the ugliness, of his hometown
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