The Times
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WE, THE DROWNED, by Carsten Jensen
The Times, May 2010 The sea has always had a mysterious influence on men, tugging them away from their humdrum,
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Do women need a book prize?
Every year there’s the same debate around the Orange Prize for women writers, which is due to be given out
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WOLF HALL, by Hilary Mantel
The Times, April 25 2009 There are some episodes of popular history that it’s easy to think you’ve had too
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THE CHINA LOVER, by Ian Buruma
The Times of London – November, 2008 There is a Japanese saying about a frog in a well, who thinks
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THE WASTED VIGIL, by Nadeem Aslam
The Times of London – August, 2008 Six characters gather in a half-ruined house in rural Afghanistan, sometime after September
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SASHENKA, by Simon Sebag Montefiore
The Times, 2008 It’s harder than you’d think for a Westerner to write a good novel set in twentieth-century Russia.
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Medical secrets of the Middle Ages
The Times – October 03, 2006 As someone brought up by parents interested in alternative medicine, I’ve spent much of
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Hans Holbein: Portrait of an Unknown Man
The Times – September 23, 2006 Beneath the penetrating realism of Hans Holbein’s work lay subtle political messages. Now, says
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From Russia with secrets
Until recently, Mr Litvinenko was a lieutenant-colonel in the Russian secret police. He claims to know some of the darkest
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What Saudi women want
The Times – May 19, 2004 Pretty, witty, glossy and groomed, Samia laughs as she remembers her first professional mistake.
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The Barbarians are coming – but where from?
The Times – April 24, 2004 The Barbarians are coming. It’s a nightmare come true for anyone who dislikes the
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Justice is ill served by tribunal for ex-Yugoslavia
The Times – April 15, 2004 It was supposed to herald a brave new world of international justice. But the
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Questions from beyond the grave in Mexico’s city of dead women
Times Saturday Magazine – April, 2004 It’s the first memorial of the week in the city of murdered women: a
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Two cheers for the appearance on the British stage of Russia’s financial stars
The Times – April 8, 2004 You may feel a twinge of envy if someone you know makes millions. But,
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Mr Wurzle and much else about Home Office incompetence should embarrass Blunkett
The Times – April 1, 2004 The closer you look at the Home Office, the more chaotic it turns out
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The yachtsmen of millionaire Moscow
Times Saturday Magazine – Spring, 2004 Someone is playing the James Bond theme tune on this chilly Moscow afternoon. A
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Aids – the latest spectre to haunt disaster-ridden Cambodia
Times Saturday Magazine – February 14, 2004 Chim Ouk is lying facing out towards the fields. The landscape is vibrantly
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Whispers in the woods of eastern Europe provoke nuclear panic
The Times – November 24, 2003 One of the oddest cases to cross David Blunkett’s desk began as a whispering
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Beauty shows its face in Afghanistan
Times Saturday Magazine – September 6, 2003 Afghanistan’s recent history is often simplified into the triumph of Beauty over the
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Why cast me as a criminal?
The Times – January 31, 2003 Chechen freedom fighter Akhmed Zakayev was once the only separatist Moscow would negotiate with.
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Chechens in Russia “moving between circles of Hell”
The Times – January 27, 2000 Zarema and her family had three choices. Live illegally on the streets in Moscow