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Vol. 27 No. 24 · 15 December 2005
Julian Barnes
Georges Braque: A Life by Alex Danchev. Hamish Hamilton, 440 pp., £35, May 2005, 0 241 14078 1 Landscape in Provence 1750-1920 Montréal Musée des Beaux ArtsDerain: The London Paintings Courtauld Institute
Letters
Jung Chang & Jon Halliday, Andrew Nathan, Valentin Lyubarsky, Simon Cockshutt
Robin Robertson
Two Poems
Liam McIlvanney
The Door by Magda Szabó, translated by Len Rix. Harvill Secker, 262 pp., £15.99, October 2005, 1 84343 193 9
Ilan Pappe
The Disappointing Trajectory of Amir Peretz
Bruce Cumings
Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty by Bradley Martin. Dunne, 868 pp., $29.95, October 2004, 0 312 32221 6 Rogue Regime: Kim Jong Il and the Looming Threat of North Korea by Jasper Becker. Oxford, 300 pp., £16.99, November 2004, 9780195170443
Henry Day
The Hall of a Thousand Columns: Hindustan to Malabar with Ibn Battutah by Tim Mackintosh-Smith. Murray, 333 pp., £20, March 2005, 0 7195 6225 2
Maurice Keen
A Knight’s Own Book of Chivalry by Geoffroi de Charny, translated by Elspeth Kennedy. Pennsylvania, 117 pp., £10, May 2005, 0 8122 1909 0 The Master of Game: The Oldest English Book on Hunting by Edward, Duke of York. Pennsylvania, 302 pp., £14.50, September 2005, 0 8122 1937 6
Tony Harrison
Poem: ‘Fireguard’
Rosemary Hill
Miss Angel: The Art and World of Angelica Kauffman by Angelica Goodden. Pimlico, 389 pp., £17.99, September 2005, 1 84413 758 9
Peter Campbell
Short Cuts: the Regent Street lights
Susan Eilenberg
All the Poems by Muriel Spark. Carcanet, 130 pp., £9.95, October 2004, 9781857547733 The Finishing School by Muriel Spark. Penguin, 156 pp., £6.99, April 2005, 9780141005980
Michael Hofmann
Selected Poems by Adam Zagajewski, translated by Clare Cavanagh, Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry and C.K. Williams. Faber, 173 pp., £12.99, October 2004, 0 571 22425 3 A Defence of Ardour: Essays by Adam Zagajewski. Farrar, Straus, 198 pp., $14, October 2005, 0 374 52988 4
Adam Mars-Jones
Plat du Jour by Matthew Herbert. Accidental
Daniel Soar
At Tate Modern: Jeff Wall
Hugh Pennington
Don’t pick your nose
Tim Flannery
Dancing with Strangers: The True History of the Meeting of the British First Fleet and the Aboriginal Australians 1788 by Inga Clendinnen. Canongate, 322 pp., £16.99, August 2005, 1 84195 616 3
Jenny Diski
Diary: The Je Ne Sais Quoi
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