Book reviewed in this issue
Opiate of the politicians
Opium: uncovering the politics of the poppy 
Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy
Reviewed by Robert Carver
The Invention of Air: an experiment, a journey, a new country and the amazing force of scientific discovery
Steven Johnson
Reviewed by Catherine Nixey
Dear Mr Bigelow: a transatlantic friendship
Frances Woodsford
Reviewed by Mary Blanche Ridge
The Defence of the Realm: the authorised history of MI5
Christopher Andrew
Reviewed by Jimmy Burns
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov, read by Julian Rhind-Tutt
Reviewed by Julian Margaret Gibbs
Joseph Severn, a Life: the rewards of friendship
Sue Brown
Reviewed by Ann Wroe
Talking About Detective Fiction
P.D. James
Reviewed by
Previous weeks reviews
Mr and mrs Pinter, at Home
Must You Go? My life with Harold Pinter
Antonia Fraser
Reviewed by Melanie McDonagh
Holy Warriors: a modern history of the Crusades
Jonathan Phillips
Reviewed by Christopher Allmand
The Best by Miles
Miles Kington
Reviewed by Tim Heald
The Making of the British Army
Allan Mallinson
Reviewed by John Jolliffe
The Great Silence 1918-1920: living in the shadow of the Great War
Juliet Nicolson
Reviewed by Isabel Quigly
Invisible
Paul Auster
Reviewed by Bernard Manzo
The Diaries of Sofia Tolstoy
Translated by Cathy Porter
Reviewed by C.J. Schüler
Alexander Lucie-Smith
Family Britain 1951-57
David Kynaston
Reviewed by Lucy Lethbridge
On the Death and Life of Languages
Claude Hagège
Reviewed by Dot Wordsworth
Terra – Tales of the Earth: four events that changed the world
Richard Hamblyn
Reviewed by James Ferguson
A Painful Gift: the journey of a soul with autism
Christopher Goodchild
Reviewed by Barbara Hungin
Shooting Leave: spying out Central Asia in the Great Game
John Ure
Reviewed by Clarissa Burden
Dancing Backwards
Salley Vickers
Reviewed by Alexander Lucie-Smith
Bringing Jerusalem to Athens
Jewish Philosophy and Western Culture: a modern introduction
Victor J. Seidler
Reviewed by Howard Cooper
The English Marriage: tales of love, money and adultery
Maureen Waller
Reviewed by Susan Dowler
Japan Through Writers’ Eyes
Edited by Elizabeth Ingrams
Reviewed by Sarah Lawson
The Humbling
Philip Roth
Reviewed by Terry Philpot
Nurturing a noble tradition
God, Philosophy, Universities: a history of the Catholic philosophical tradition
Alasdair MacIntyre
Reviewed by Anthony Kenny
The Letters of T.S. Eliot: volume I, 1898-1922, revised edition
Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton (eds)
Reviewed by Geoffrey Elborn
The Trouble with Markets: saving capitalism from itself
Roger Bootle
Reviewed by Duncan Campbell-Smith
The Fourth Part of the World: the epic story of history’s greatest map
Toby Lester
Reviewed by Marcus Tanner
Jacqueline Groag, Textile and Pattern Design: Wiener Werkstätte to American Modern
Geoffrey Rayner, Richard Chamberlain and Annamarie Stapleton
Reviewed by
Oiled wheels of Eastern power
The Arabs: a history
Eugene Rogan
Reviewed by Mark Allen
Being a Pilgrim: art and ritual on the medieval routes to Santiago
Kathleen Ashley and Marilyn Deegan
Reviewed by Ian Bradley
Crown and Shamrock: love and hate between Ireland and the British monarchy
Mary Kenny
Reviewed by Charles Lysaght
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