September 2008
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Civilisation
Critique
Writers, Visible and Invisible
CYNTHIA OZICKWriters are hidden beings, says the winner of the 2008 PEN/Nabokov Lifetime Achievement Award
Books
A Loser Aims High
LUCASTA MILLERGood to be God by Tibor Fischer
The Torments Of Love
JANE SHILLINGThe Act of Love by Howard Jacobson
Revolutionary Roundabout
ANGELICA GOODDENChildren of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914 by Robert Gildea
The State Of Our Nation
PIERS PAUL READOur Times. The Age of Elizabeth II by A.N. Wilson
Enduring Friendship
SELINA HASTINGSIn Tearing Haste: Letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor by Charlotte Mosely
The Wealth Of The Wittgensteins
RAY MONKThe House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War by Alexander Waugh
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