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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 gardening or cookery books. All presented with Tim Haigh’s passion for books and writing. Tim is a widely respected critic, reviewer and broadcaster. Expert without being stuffy, he is noted for the lively intelligence and irreverence he brings to the field.
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Peter Doggett – Surf’s Up – Brian Wilson And The Beach Boys
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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Nicholas Wright – Warhead: How the Brain Shapes War and War Shapes the Brain
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Tom Doyle – Ringo: A Fab Life
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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Mark Blake – Shine On – The Definitive Oral History Of Pink Floyd
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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Thomas Levenson – So Very Small: How humans discovered germs, uncovered infectious diseases, and deluded themselves that we had conquered them
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Jul 26, 2025 |
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Mike Jay – Free Radicals – How A Group of Romantic Experimenters Gave Birth to Psychedelic Science
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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Peter Hogan – Resident Alien
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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John Cassidy – Capitalism and Its Critics: A Battle of Ideas in the Modern World
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May 28, 2025 |
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Eleni Kyriacou – A Beautiful Way To Die
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May 04, 2025 |
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John Higgs – Exterminate/Regenerate: The Story of Doctor Who
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Ian Leslie – John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Simon Hart – Ungovernable: The Political Diaries of a Chief Whip
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Joanne Harris – Moonlight Market
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Jan 18, 2025 |
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Jerry Brotton – Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Robin Choudhury – The Beating Heart: The Art and Science of Our Most Vital Organ
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Nov 09, 2024 |
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Evie Wyld – The Echoes
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Sep 08, 2024 |
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Marcus Chown – A Crack In Everything: How Black Holes Came in from the Cold and Took Cosmic Centre Stage
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Scarlett Thomas – The Sleepwalkers
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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Adrian Mackinder – Death and the Victorians
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Alwyn Turner – Little Englanders – Britain in the Edwardian Era
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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Howard Jacobson – What Will Survive of Us
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Feb 11, 2024 |
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Philip Norman: George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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Sarah Ogilvie – The Dictionary People – The Unsung Heroes Who Created The Oxford English Dictionary
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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Mike Jay – Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Neil Jordan – The Well Of Saint Nobody
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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Cathi Unsworth – Season Of The Witch: The Book Of Goth
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Jul 16, 2023 |
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Lawrence Krauss – The Known Unknowns: The Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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Barry Forshaw – Simenon: The Man, The Books, The Films: A 21st Century Guide
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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Joanne Harris – Broken Light
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May 15, 2023 |
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Steve Richards – The Prime Ministers We Never Had: Success And Failure From Butler to Corbyn
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Dec 18, 2022 |
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Joel Meadows – Tripwire 30th Anniversary
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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David Hepworth – Abbey Road: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Famous Recording Studio
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Oct 22, 2022 |
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Louise Willder – Blurb Your Enthusiasm – an A-Z of Literary Persuasion
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Oct 02, 2022 |
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Nick Wallis – The Great Post Office Scandal: The fight to expose a multimillion pound IT disaster which put innocent people in jail
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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Rachel Gross – Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Howard Jacobson – Mother’s Boy: A Writer’s Beginnings
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Simon Mason – A Killing In November
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Feb 20, 2022 |
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Dr Thomas Halliday – Otherlands: A World in the Making
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Jan 30, 2022 |
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Robert J Lloyd – The Bloodless Boy
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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Prof Francesca Stavrakopoulou – God An Anatomy
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Nov 05, 2021 |
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Nicholas Wapshott – Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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Robb Johnson – The People’s Republic of Neverland: The Child Versus The State
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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Alwyn Turner – All In It Together: England in the Early 21st Century
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Jun 27, 2021 |
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Adrian MacKinder – Stan Lee – How Marvel Changed The World!
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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Paul Theroux from the archives – Chicago Loop
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Mar 07, 2021 |
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Philip Norman – Wild Thing: The short, spellbinding life of Jimi Hendrix
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Sep 25, 2020 |
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Larry Watson – The Lives Of Edie Pritchard
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Aug 15, 2020 |
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Liz Williams – Miracles of Our Own Making: A History of Paganism
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Jun 14, 2020 |
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Chris Kirkham - Decoherence
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May 30, 2020 |
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Stephen Tow – London, Reign Over Me: How England’s Capital Built Classic Rock
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May 12, 2020 |
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Helen Lewis – Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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Barry Forshaw – Crime Fiction – A Reader’s Guide
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Jan 19, 2020 |
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Steve Richards - The Prime Ministers: Reflections on Leadership from Harold Wilson to Theresa May
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Nov 19, 2019 |
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Graeme Garrard – How To Think Politically
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Oct 27, 2019 |
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Mike Isaac - Super Pumped: The Battle For Uber
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Oct 07, 2019 |
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Ray Connolly - Sorry Boys, You Failed The Audition
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Aug 03, 2019 |
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Ross Barnett – The Missing Lynx – The Past And Future Of Britain’s Lost Mammals
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Jul 20, 2019 |
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Robert Elliott Smith – Rage Inside The Machine – The Prejudice of Algorithms and How to Stop The Internet Making Bigots of us All
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Jul 02, 2019 |
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Ben Burgis – Give Them An Argument: Logic For The Left
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Jun 15, 2019 |
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Joel Meadows – Masters Of Comics
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May 29, 2019 |
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Randy Ross - God Bless Cambodia
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Feb 21, 2019 |
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Julian Baggini – How The World Thinks
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Feb 04, 2019 |
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Ray Connolly – Being John Lennon
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Oct 30, 2018 |
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Tom Kirkham – Pop Life
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Jul 16, 2018 |
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Robert Kuttner – Can Democracy Survive Globalisation?
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Jun 14, 2018 |
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Toby Litt – Wrestliana
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Apr 29, 2018 |
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Grady Hendrix – Paperbacks From Hell
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Feb 14, 2018 |
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Christopher Fowler – The Book of Forgotten Authors
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Nov 20, 2017 |
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Ben Aaronovich – The Furthest Station
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Oct 15, 2017 |
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Steve Richards – The Rise of the Outsiders: How Mainstream Politics Lost its Way
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Sep 11, 2017 |
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Robert Newman – Neuropolis: A Brain Science Survival Guide
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Aug 07, 2017 |
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Tim Haigh – Z is for Zeugma
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Jan 30, 2017 |
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Philip Norman - Paul McCartney
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May 10, 2016 |
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Lawrence Block – The Girl With The Deep Blue Eyes
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Nov 02, 2015 |
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Jamie Cawley - Beliefs And The World They Created
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Sep 14, 2015 |
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Mike Ripley about Angels And Others
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Aug 21, 2015 |
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Mike Jay – High Society: Mind-Altering Drugs in History and Culture
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May 15, 2015 |
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Armin Navabi – Why There Is No God – Simple Responses to 20 Common Arguments for the Existence of God
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Apr 18, 2015 |
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Nicholas Wapshott – The Sphinx – Franklin Roosevelt, the Isolationists, and the Road to World War II
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Jan 29, 2015 |
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Toby Litt – Lifelike
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Nov 22, 2014 |
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Alwyn W turner – The Last Post
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Nov 11, 2014 |
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Christopher Fowler – Nyctophobia
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Oct 11, 2014 |
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Anne McCaffrey from the archive – Renegades of Pern
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Jul 28, 2014 |
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Mike Ripley – Margery Allingham’s Mr Campion’s Farewell: the Return of Albert Campion Completed by Mike Ripley
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Jun 08, 2014 |
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George Cooper – Money, Blood and Revolution
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May 13, 2014 |
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Humaira Shahid – Devotion and Defiance
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Mar 28, 2014 |
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Lawrence Block – The Burglar Who Counted the Spoons
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Jan 05, 2014 |
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Larry Watson – Let Him Go
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Nov 04, 2013 |
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Iain Banks from the Archives
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Jun 09, 2013 |
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Christopher Fowler – Film Freak
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May 19, 2013 |
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Martin Amis from the Archive – London Fields
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Apr 11, 2013 |
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Gore Vidal from the archive – Palimpsest
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Mar 26, 2013 |
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John Mortimer from the archive – Rumpole And The Angel Of Death
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Mar 10, 2013 |
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Salman Rushdie from the archive – The Moor’s Last Sigh
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Feb 24, 2013 |
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Terry Pratchett from the archive – Maskerade
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Feb 09, 2013 |
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Philip Norman – Mick Jagger
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Nov 09, 2012 |
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Iain M Banks – The Hydrogen Sonata
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Oct 17, 2012 |
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Christopher Fowler – Bryant and May and the Invisible Code
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Sep 21, 2012 |
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Alom Shaha – The Young Atheist’s Handbook
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Aug 13, 2012 |
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Alwyn W Turner – Things Can Only Get Bitter
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Apr 07, 2012 |
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Nicholas Wapshott – Keynes Hayek – The Clash That Defined Modern Economics
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Mar 12, 2012 |
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Larry Watson – American Boy
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Nov 17, 2011 |
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Chris Mullin – A Walk-On Part: Diaries 1994-1999
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Sep 14, 2011 |
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Alwyn W Turner – The Man Who Invented The Daleks, The Strange Worlds Of Terry Nation
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May 25, 2011 |
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Steve Richards – Whatever It Takes
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Feb 13, 2011 |
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Russell Hoban – Angelica Lost And Found
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Nov 01, 2010 |
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Iain Banks – Surface Detail
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Sep 23, 2009 |
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Iain Banks – Transition
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Sep 23, 2009 |
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Alwyn Turner – Crisis, What Crisis – Britain in the 1970s
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Aug 29, 2008 |
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Lord David Owen – In Sickness And In Power – illness in heads of government during the last 100 years
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Aug 15, 2008 |