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Theatre of pain
Doctors’ blood-and-guts memoirs expose the pride, violence and rare, sweet beauty of medicine
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Descent into Chaos
This fascinating account of the Afghan war and the double-dealing and corruption in central Asia should be required reading for the next US president, writes Quentin Peel
The Black Death
A fictionalised account of the terrible ‘Black Death’ years, with actual names and incidents lifted from manorial records and given to an invented cast of characters
Cold comfort
Two new tomes tackle the growing interest in wild swimming as suburbia loses its lustre and nature regains our regard
Powers of Persuasion
This authoritative history-cum-memoir of British advertising by a successful ad man combines piquant anecdotes about individual agencies and campaigns with revealing and reliable data
Txting
A linguistics professor’s fascination with SMS-speak upends the notion that academics would be the first to protest this supposed desecration of the English language
Stonehenge
This is not the story of the stones themselves, but rather a re-telling of 1,000 years of theory, argument and invention about their presence
Lewis Carroll in Numberland
In addition to writing Alice in Wonderland, the author was also a gifted mathematician whose books for children are brimming with arithmetical allusions for entertainment
Tales of woe and expensive promises
Roger Lowenstein’s account of the US pensions crisis is strong on narrative but ultimately lacks solutions, writes John Gapper
Semi-Invisible Man
A Sisyphian effort to put onto paper the life of the great writer Norman Lewis whose work illuminated the living conditions of the poorest, most primitive and most threatened of the peoples of the world
The Qur’an: A New Translation
This text stands above other English versions of the Qur’an by drawing attention to the affinity between its subject and that of the Bible
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