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The English landscape in literature

Wonder mingles with melancholy in five fine meditations on nature, writes John Sutherland

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Labour of love

Orlando Figes’ ‘Just Send Me Word’ tells how a couple’s struggle to outlast the Gulag illuminates the ordeal of millions, writes Simon Sebag Montefiore

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Skyfall

The daughter of a diplomat finds herself at the heart of wartime espionage in Simon Mawer’s ‘The Girl Who Fell From the Sky’. Simon Schama reviews

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A mighty pen

Peter Clarke’s ‘Mr Churchill’s Profession’ reminds us of the statesman’s literary gifts, but takes issue with his greatest work

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Flying Scotsman

A rich teenage boy drops out of school to become an apprentice train driver on a declining railroad in Alan Warner’s ‘The Deadman’s Pedal’

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‘Europe doesn’t need the euro’ by Thilo Sarrazin

Thilo Sarrazin is once again deliberately provocative in ‘Europe doesn’t need the euro’

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Chris Cleave: What am I most proud of writing? Emails to some of my readers, who were in trouble

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Political science

Mark Henderson’s ‘The Geek Manifesto’ discusses why it is time for PhDs to exert a greater influence in government and policy-making

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Epic recast

China Miéville’s gripping yarn ‘Railsea’ reimagines ‘Moby Dick’ as a steampunk fantasy set in a realm crisscrossed by countless rail tracks

Cover of 'The Colour of Milk' by Nell Leyshon FICTION May 26, 2012

Reading between the lines

Nell Leyshon’s ‘The Colour of Milk’ is a disturbing statement on the social constraints faced by 19th-century women

Cover of 'Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man' by Mark Kurlansky NON-FICTION May 26, 2012

Curious man

Mark Kurlansky’s ‘Birdseye’ is an absorbing biography of the commercially minded inventor behind the frozen food brand

Cover of 'The Twelve Caesars' by Matthew Dennison NON-FICTION May 26, 2012

Power-hungry crowd

Matthew Dennison’s ‘The Twelve Caesars’ offers insightful pen portraits of Rome’s rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian

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