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...Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge from Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Simon Winchester, William Collins £25, 400 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings by Thomas Williams William Collins £25, 413 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...A quarter-century after what Jessie Childs calls a “totemic, bond-forging event”, William Waller and Ralph Hopton found themselves opposed when their own homeland plunged into civil war....
...Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War by Deborah Cohen, William Collins £25, 592 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Bewilderment by Richard Powers, William Heinemann £20/WW Norton $27.95, 288 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...William Tyndale printed his epoch-making translations of the Bible here. In 1535, a spy lured him out of the secure “English House”....
...Though forever linked to the green hills and sparkling waters of the Lake District he loved, William Wordsworth wrote two poems about an eerily deserted London....
...And Their Children After Them , by Nicolas Mathieu, translated by William Rodarmor, Other Press, RR£16.99, 432 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Cafe....
...William James deplored the “PhD octopus” that had strangled intellectual passion. He lamented that universities only bred “sterilised conceit and incapacity for being pleased”....
...Honours for Sir William’s work as an eye and ear specialist, as a pioneer statistician, as an archaeologist, rolled in....
...The glutinous sentimentality of his blog (“I stood at the edge of this puddle in the fading light of the year and of my own years”) hilariously rivals the rustic effusions of William Boot in Evelyn Waugh...
...This argument certainly applies to the slippery Lyndon Johnson, who manufactured a casus belli over the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, winning carte blanche congressional support for a huge escalation of...
...“We have no agreed agenda,” the Foreign Office mandarin William Strang (an actual figure, like almost all Harris’s cast) airily informs Legat. “No preliminary work has been done.”...
...William S Burroughs, meet John le Carré. Both at risk of ruin, the lovers know that their “romantic motto” must be that dismal credo of the cold war stand-off: “mutually assured destruction”....
...Lionel Shriver talks to Boyd Tonkin March 25, 12pm Weston Lecture Theatre, £13.50 The author of We Need to Talk about Kevin talks to literary critic Boyd Tonkin about her latest novel The Mandibles: A...
...William Tuohy was born in Chicago on October 1 1926, the descendant of an Irishman who had fled there during the potato famine....
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