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Review of Books

R E V I E W O F T H E R E V I E W S Review of Books

ISSUE 19 SPRING 2012

Whatthecriticssaid

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OVER 50 OF THE BEST BOOKS COVERED INCLUDING Sandy Gall Anne Somerset Robert Service Diane Keaton Nicholas Rankin

PD James Walter Isaacson Marcus Berkmann William Boyd Roger Scruton Condoleezza Rice Craig Taylor Penelope Lively Alain de Botton Piers Paul Read

John Sutherland Anthony Horowitz Martin Vander Weyer Adam Nicolson Ken Livingstone …and many more

What a howler! Jeremy Lewis bemoans the many mistakes in books

The literary lives of Hemingway, Beckett, Didion and Winterson

A R O U N D - U P O F R E V I E W S • N O T J U S T T H E B E S T S E L L E R S

‘I adore The Oldie. I feel it ’s written just for me’ Jilly Coper

Mother-in-law’s tongue: see page 63

ge t re ady to cel ebr at e pril 2012 www.theoldie.co.uk sprinting away peeress (89) in two-finger shock hanraty the highgate vampire mrs tommy coper and me £3

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