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Afghanistan’s tough lessons in the limits of military power, how to revolutionise the way you sleep, Jarvis Cocker’s rock star memoir, centenary reflections on Ireland’s civil war, the John Stonehouse spy scandal, Catherine the Great and smallpox, short stories by Deesha Philyaw and Lisa Taddeo — plus Barry Forshaw’s crime fiction round-up
Militarily, both the Kremlin and the White House got things spectacularly wrong. Two new books examine why and how
Russell Foster presents a comprehensive manifesto for living in harmony with our body clocks
A century on from the outbreak of civil war, two books examine very different stories of the Anglo-Irish gentry
How Big Tech chokes innovation and how building a ‘second brain’ can ease chaotic minds
Lucy Ward takes a timely and entertaining look at the Russian sovereign’s pioneering stance on inoculation
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