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Vol. 27 No. 23 · 1 December 2005
Colm Tóibín
The Ferns Report by Francis Murphy, Helen Buckley and Laraine Joyce. Government Publications, 271 pp., €6, October 2005, 0 7557 7299 7
Letters
Jim Harper, Neil Forster, Barry Inder, Keith Flett, Anna Berger, Hilde Bojer, Chris Campbell
John Burnside
Two Poems
Matthew Kelly
Easter 1916: The Irish Rebellion by Charles Townshend. Allen Lane, 442 pp., £20, September 2005, 0 7139 9690 0
Tim Parks
The Siege of Venice by Jonathan Keates. Chatto, 495 pp., £20, September 2005, 0 7011 6637 1
Jenny Turner
Ayn Rand by Jeff Britting. Duckworth, 155 pp., £12.99, February 2005, 0 7156 3269 8
James Meek
Ivan the Terrible: First Tsar of Russia by Isabel de Madariaga. Yale, 484 pp., £25, July 2005, 0 300 09757 3
Adam Phillips
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis. Picador, 308 pp., £16.99, October 2005, 0 330 43953 7
Thomas Jones
Short Cuts: Is it just me?
Curtis Sittenfeld
Oh the Glory of It All by Sean Wilsey. Viking, 482 pp., £14.99, September 2005, 0 670 91601 3
Craig Clunas
At the Royal Academy: Art of the Emperors
Isaac Land
The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson by Roger Knight. Allen Lane, 874 pp., £30, July 2005, 0 7139 9619 6 Admiral Lord Nelson: Context and Legacy edited by David Cannadine. Palgrave, 201 pp., £19.99, June 2005, 1 4039 3906 3
Robert VanderMolen
Two Poems
Ruth Bernard Yeazell
The Letters of Lytton Strachey edited by Paul Levy. Viking, 698 pp., £30, March 2005, 0 670 89112 6
Andy Clark
Alan Turing: Life and Legacy of a Great Thinker edited by Christof Teuscher. Springer, 542 pp., £46, February 2004, 3 540 20020 7
Andrew Saint
Philip Webb: Pioneer of Arts and Crafts Architecture by Sheila Kirk. Wiley-Academy, 336 pp., £29.99, February 2005, 0 470 86808 2
Peter Campbell
The Secret Life of Trees: How They Live and Why They Matter by Colin Tudge. Allen Lane, 452 pp., £20, November 2005, 0 7139 9698 6
Jeremy Harding
Diary: Among the Arsonists
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