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The Ancient Entertainer
The Man who Invented History: Travels with Herodotus by Justin Marozzi
Philip Marsden

Amoral Equivalence
Beyond Terror and Martyrdom by Gilles Kepel
The Case Against Israel’s Enemies by Alan Dershowitz
David Pryce-Jones

Cycles of Violence
The Armies by Evelio Rosero, translated by Anne McLean
Louis Amis

ONLINE ONLY: False Icons
Fidel & Che: A Revolutionary Friendship by Simon Reid-Henry
Anthony Daniels

When Poets and Chemists Fused
The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes
Paul Johnson

Duped by the Devil
Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West by Lawrence Rees
Adam Zamoyski

Box of Tricks
100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know by John D. Barrow
Mark Ronan

Raising the Tone
The Triumph of Music by Tim Blanning
Roger Scruton

Only One Thing on Their Minds
Sex and Sensuality in the Ancient World by Giulia Sissa
Kate Maltby

The Year of the Good Read?
2008 in review
Jane Shilling

Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley

The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart

A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House