March 2009
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Civilisation
Art
Faces that Don't Quite Fit
MICHAEL PRODGERWhen it came to painting portraits, Constable struggled to emulate his mastery of landscape
Books
The Anti-Green Ecologist
MYRON EBELLThe Vanishing Face of Gaia by James Lovelock
He Knew He Was Right by John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin
Wars Ancient and Modern
DAVID SCOTTThe English Civil Wars 1640-1660 by Blair Worden
A Joy For Ever
NOEL MALCOLMRevolutionary Woman
PHILIP MANSELDancing to the Precipice: Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution by Caroline Moorehead
Taking the Biscuit
ALASDAIR PALMERThe Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton
Postcards From the Damned
CAROLINE MOOREAlone in Berlin by Hans Fallada
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
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