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• I Used to Know That: Stuff You Forgot from School

  Aug 16 2008:

  Review: I Used to Know That by Caroline Taggart
  Aside from the flippant coverage of Eng Lit, this book becomes potentially less useless

• Echoes from the Dead

  Aug 16 2008:

  Review: Echoes from the Dead by Johan Theorin
  Theorin's exposition of history and the nature of memory is haunting and lyrical, but never impedes a cracking good plot

• Tattoo

  Aug 16 2008:

  Review: Tattoo by Vázquez Montalbán
  It is easy to see why Vázquez Montalbán was recently named one of the 50 best crime writers of all time

• The Crunch: The Scandal of Northern Rock and the Escalating Credit Crisis

  Aug 16 2008:

  Review: The Crunch: The Scandal of Northern Rock by Alex Brummer
  A racy transatlantic narrative of the crisis, its origins and aftermath

• Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb

  Aug 16 2008:

  Review: Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb by Mike Davis
  Mike Davis has constructed this book more precisely than his other recent works on the disintegration of the world's social and ecological contracts

• Tresspass

  Aug 16 2008:

  Review: Trespass by Valerie Martin
  In this new novel seems to draw a deep breath to take on the Bosnian genocide

• The Soul Collector

  Aug 16 2008:

  Review: The Soul Collector by Paul Johnston
  Johnston does an expert job in this extraordinary mixture of police procedural and head-banging vigilante lit

• Cosmos: An Illustrated History of Astronomy and Cosmology

  Aug 16 2008:

  Review: Cosmos: An Illustrated History of Astronomy and Cosmology by John North
  At nearly 900 pages, this is a suitably monumental book about the biggest subject of all: the cosmos

• The Draining Lake

  Aug 16 2008:

  Review: The Draining Lake by Arnaldur Indridason
  A master storyteller who has a real gift for evoking complex humanity

• God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of the Romantic Britain

  Aug 16 2008:

  God's Architect: Pugin and the Building of the Romantic Britain by Rosemary Hill
  Rosemary Hill rolls out the dramatic panorama of Pugin's life and work as well as detailing the splendours and quirks of the buildings he loved and created

• Cham

  Aug 16 2008:

  Review: Cham by Jonathan Trigell
  Like Chamonix's famous black runs, the narrative goes downhill fast

• The Death of Sigmund Freud

  Aug 16 2008:

  Review: The Death of Sigmund Freud by Mark Edmundson
  Freud may have come under attack in recent years, but at a time when the comfort offered by religious doctrine has dire global ramifications once again, Edmundson stresses the topicality of his ideas

• To Follow the Water: Exploring the Sea to Discover Climate

  Aug 16 2008:

  Review: To Follow the Water: Exploring the Sea to Discover Climate by Dallas Murphy
  Dallas Murphy, a novelist and keen sailor, believes the ocean has been left out of the climate change debate

• The Bad Girl

  Aug 16 2008:

  Review: The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa
  Nothing in Llosa's vast oeuvre has been as unexpected as this incursion

• First Among Sequels

  Aug 16 2008:

  Review: First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde
  Existing fans will love the book and mock non-believers but it just made my head hurt

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