The Golden Maze offers a broad sweep of Prague’s history and a clear warning against totalitarianism. Richard Fidler is a broadcaster and host of Conversations on...
Read MoreRichard Ovenden, head of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, makes the case for libraries and the preservation of knowledge. Libraries, those repositories of human...
Read MoreIn telling their personal stories, Catrine Clay brings to life the Germans who resisted Nazism, reminding us that the Fuhrer’s cheering crowds did not represent...
Read MoreIn The Time of Our Lives Robert Dessaix ponders approaches to ageing, and does so with ‘unending playful curiosity’. Robert Dessaix is 76 years old. Not...
Read MoreNatasha Stott Despoja makes a compelling case for more action to confront the attitudes at the heart of domestic violence. Don’t let this book’s diminutive size fool...
Read MoreCan animals teach us how to eat in healthier ways? David Raubenheimer and Stephen J Simpson think so. There’s nothing like being compared to slime mould to bring you...
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