Reviewed in the LRB - Vol. 45 No. 8

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In two remarkable historical novels, Mary Renault fashions from the myth of Theseus a convincingly flawed hero and weaves a thrillingly plausible account of the Labyrinth and the infamous Minotaur.The King Must Die follows the young…

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The crusade movement needed women: their money, their prayer support, their active participation, and their inspiration...This book surveys women's involvement in medieval crusading between the second half of the eleventh century, when Pope…

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Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea is a work of social history examining community relationships, law, and seafaring over the long early modern period. It explores the politics of the coastline, the economy of scavenging, and the law…

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A New Statesman Book of the YearA critical analysis of the transformation of constitutionalism from an increasingly irrelevant theory of limited government into the most influential philosophy of governance in the world…

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The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb's library in 1848 Charles Lamb's library-a heap of sixty scruffy old books singed with smoke, soaked with gin, sprinkled with crumbs, stripped of…

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Translated by Olivia Baes & Emma Ramadan'One of the 20th century's greatest thinkers and prose stylists' New York Times'A novel of the disquieting contours of family, and of the mind, and of life unceasing even in…

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A captivating exploration of Britain’s most iconic contemporary buildings, from the Barratt home to the Millennium Dome.‘Vital . . . Grindrod is an architectural Daniel Defoe on a tour of our island, excavating our recent past,…

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'This life-stuffed novel is Aleksandar Hemon's masterpiece' - David Mitchell, author of Cloud AtlasThe World and All That It Holds is the epic, cross-continental tale of a love so strong it conquers the Great War, revolution, and…