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James Walvin's wonderful memoir of growing up in the 1950s evokes a lost world of harsh...

The Paradox of Liberation: Secular Revolutions and Religious Counterrevolutions, by...

On the Move: A Life, Oliver Sacks (Picador, £20) Oliver Sacks is not like other...

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As he prepares for charter renewal, Director General Tony Hall could learn a lot from two...

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The tactile, feminine works of Barabara Hepworth show her intimate relationship with...

Headscarves and Hymens, by Mona Eltahawy American-Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy...

The Bamboo Stalk, Saud Alsanousi (Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation, £16.99) The Kuwaiti...

Violence: A Modern Obsession, by Richard Bessel (Simon & Schuster,...

Alfred Hitchcock by Peter Ackroyd (Chatto & Windus, £12.99) Plot was the motor...

Nicola Sturgeon: A Political Life, by David Torrance (Birlinn, £9.99) Whether Nicola...

Pax Technica, by Philip N Howard (Yale University Press, £16.99) Bucking the recent...

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