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Mature Times reviews 100 Things I Meant to Tell You by Arthur Smith He’s a bit of a national treasure, a grumpy old man and has been described by non-other than fellow comedian Jo Brand as “Having a v ...
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Literature: Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, J. M. Barrie, David Mitchell and Poets
Robert Tanitch’s Round-Up of Books No 4 (2019) Jane Austen: Her Life, Her Times, Her Novels by Janet Todd (Andre Deutsch £20). Austen’s popularity is undiminished. Her novels are regularly filmed for ...
Breathtaking Sites, World War II Infographics and The Tudors
Robert Tanitch’s Round-Up of Books No 3 (2019) Silk Roads: People, Culture, Landscape (Thames & Hudson £49.95) Afro-Eurasian’s 1,500 year old trade routes across steppe, mountains, deserts, rivers ...
Biographies: Philosophers, Marius Petipa, Quentin Tarantino, Lenny Henry, Alexander McQueen and Henry Poole
Robert Tanitch’s Round-Up of Books No 2. (2019) Philosophers: Their Lives and Works (DK £20). Confucius to Aquinas to Descartes to Voltaire to Rousseau, to Hegle and Kierkegaard, to Bertrand Russell, ...