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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 18 WINTER 2011

Whatthecriticssaid

OVER 50

OVER 50 OF THE BEST BOOKS COVERED INCLUDING Craig Brown Claire Tomalin Richard Holmes Pam Ayres Richard Dawkins Alexander Masters Mark Kermode Heather Brooke

Jeremy Paxman Alastair Hignell Eamon Duffy Anne Sebba Christopher Lloyd A N Wilson Kwasi Kwarteng Alexandra Fuller Peter Ackroyd

Janice Galloway Wade Davis Ronald Blythe Molly Keane …and many more

Fiction special: Sam Leith on the Man Booker Paperback round-up

PLUS Wallis Simpson Leonora Carrington A Tale of Two Dickens

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

It ’s wry, it ’s funny, it ’s eccentric – I read it with delight’ Terry Wogan

Soppy horror show – see page 61

Make Yourself Proud

December 2011 www.theoldie.co.uk one day at a time DAILY MAIL MAN IN CHILD ABUSE CONFESSION BORE TV HOLIDAY HIGHLIGHTS GIANT XMAS XWORDS ZIL WITH US £3

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