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...Eliot After The Waste Land (Eliot Biographies, 2)by Robert Crawford, Jonathan Cape £25/Farrar, Straus & Giroux $35 After a six-year wait, Robert Crawford follows up Young Eliot (2016) with his second (and...
...She helped with the DNA profiling that exonerated Colin Stagg of the brutal murder of Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common in 1992 and identified the true culprit, Robert Napper....
...A sense of growing menace pervades Emma Haughton’s The Dark (Hodder and Stoughton, £12.99)....
...The Whistleblowerby Robert Peston, Zaffre £14.99 Smart, quick-fire insider’s tale that whisks the reader back to the champagne and cocaine-fuelled late 1990s world of Blairite Britain where politics and...
...In Bethany Clift’s Last One at the Party (Hodder and Stoughton, £12.99), a lethal flu-like pandemic leaves practically everyone dead apart from the narrator....
...The mega-tech investment phenomenon that is SoftBank is the subject of Aiming High (Hodder & Stoughton, June), Atsuo Inoue’s biography of the group’s founder Masayoshi Son....
...“What’s more, there is no evidence that tougher penalties stop people committing crimes,” Mr Stoughton added....
...In his book American Grace, Harvard sociology professor Robert Putnam documents the extraordinary power of faith communities to generate social capital....
...When Faber was looking for an injection of editorial talent at the end of the 1970s, the eventual appointee, Robert McCrum, was alerted to the position by Penny Faber, whose husband Tom had worked with McCrum...
...However, Corey Stoughton, the group’s advocacy director, said the language of the commitment was “worryingly vague” and asked for a “cast-iron commitment” that people would no longer have to fear immigration...
...WTF , by Robert Peston, Hodder & Stoughton, RRP£20, 264 pages Vernon Bogdanor is professor of government at King’s College London Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...Science fiction by James Lovegrove Sea of Rust, by C Robert Cargill, Gollancz, RRP£14.99 After the machines rise up and humankind is exterminated, the world remains as corrupt as it ever was....
...Lanza was born to devout Catholic parents in a deprived part of Stoughton, Massachusetts....
...The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, by Robert Caro, Bodley Head, RRP£35/Vintage, RRP$26 First published in 1974 but only now appearing in the UK, this slab of a book is a fine monument...
...The Silkworm, by Robert Galbraith, Little, Brown, RRP£20/ Mulholland Books, RRP$28 Now that her cover is blown and we all know that Robert Galbraith is actually the mega-selling JK Rowling, we can judge...
...James Lovegrove ——————————————- CRIME The Silkworm, by Robert Galbraith, Little, Brown, RRP£20/ Mulholland Books, RRP$28 Now that her cover is blown and we all know that Robert Galbraith is actually...
...Selections by Tim Hayward … GARDENING Seeing Flowers: Discover the Hidden Life of Flowers, by Teri Dunn Chace and Robert Llewellyn, Timber Press, RRP£20/$29.95 Flower porn....
...The Economic Price of Having it All, and the Route to Lasting Prosperity, by Robert Peston and Laurence Knight, Hodder & Stoughton, RRP£20, 480 pages We are living through the first global banking crisis...
...SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY Juggernaut , by Adam Baker, Hodder & Stoughton, RRP£6.99 In a year crowded with zombie fiction, Baker’s second novel stands out....
...The World America Made, by Robert Kagan, Knopf, RRP$21, 160 pages A short book that attracted Obama’s attention....
...Robert McNab was there, a filmmaker, art curator and writer on art....
...Robert Alter, no mean translator of the ancient languages himself, offers a brilliant essay in the same collection titled “The Glories and the Glitches of the King James Bible”....
...The dog in question had an interesting pedigree – Flush belonged to Elizabeth Barrett, and witnessed her affair with fellow poet Robert Browning....
...The Wrong Kind of Snow: The Complete Daily Companion to the British Weather By Antony Woodward and Robert Penn Hodder & Stoughton £9.99, 400 pages FT Bookshop price: £7.99 Great British Weather Disasters...
...The Keys to Good Cooking: A Guide to Making the Best of Foods and Recipes, by Harold McGee, Hodder and Stoughton RRP£25 McGee’s On Food and Cooking is the seminal text for anyone who wishes to understand...
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