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British Olympic Games hopes at Butlins.D.O. Finlay Hurdler. 19 April 1948

The Austerity Olympics by Janie Hampton

The Sunday Times review by Andrew Holgate; how London overcame rationing to put on one of the friendliest (and cheapest) Olympic games

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Professor Susan Greenfield, scientist, Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain
iD: The Quest for Identity in the 21st Century by Susan Greenfield

The Sunday Times review by Raymond Tallis: do galloping technological advances and social changes threaten to ‘bend our brains'?

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Children's author Julia Davidson
The Gruffalo's unhappy child

Julia Donaldson, author of the children's bestseller, talks frankly about her son Hamish's suicide

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Girls and smoking: the lads’ mag 173 years ago

Like today’s men’s magazines, The Young Man’s Own Book furnished its readers with advice on everything

Revealingly yours, Philip Larkin

Postcards dug from the bottom of a box have given one Oxford librarian tantalising insights into the poet’s work

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A secluded writing retreat on Jura awaits one lucky reader

Best of Times, Worst of Times: A C Grayling

Teh philosopher and writer recalls the difficult, short life of his sister, which ended with her brutal murder in 1969

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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Sex and Science by Mary Roach The Sunday Times review by Matt Rudd

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Sex and Science by Mary Roach The Sunday Times review by Matt Rudd: stories of scientific endeavour that will make you blush

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Alfred & Emily by Doris Lessing

Book extract and The Times review by Ruth Scurr.

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The Sunday Times review by Michael Burleigh: Donald Rumsfeld, the Geneva Convention, and an accusation of torture

Sunshine by Robert Mighall

The Sunday Times review by Antonia Quirke: a compulsive, idiosyncratic attempt to explain the importance of the sun in history

Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama

Holder of the White Lotus: The Lives of the Dalai Lama by Alexander Norman The Open Road: The Global Journey of the 14th Dalai Lama by Pico Iyer

The Sunday Times review by Patrick French: the global appeal of the man dubbed ‘the most influential person in the world'

The Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Iraq

The Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Iraq by Peter Stone and Joanne Farchakh

The Times review by Mary Beard

Hornsey 1968: The Art School Revolution by Lisa Tickner

Painting and Politics in 'the English Bauhaus'

Amenable Women by Mavis Cheek and The Private Lives of Pippa Lee by Rebecca Miller

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Legacy: Cecil Rhodes, the Rhodes Trust and Rhodes Scholarships by Philip Ziegler

The Sunday Times review by Jacob Weisberg: one Rhodes scholarship alumnus on the legacy of Cecil Rhodes's educational bequest

In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story by Andrea Weiss

The Times review by Ian Brunskill

The Autobiography of a Super-tramp by W.H. Davies

The Times review by Chris Hannan. This eyewitness account of life among society's outcasts has been in print since 1908

Paperback - Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore

The Times review by Ross Leckie: A magnificent biography that traces Stalin's evolution to power

The House of Mirth. The most gorgeous book ever? Read the book and tell us what you think

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Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling arrives at Manhattan federal court in New York

Harry Potter author's victory in privacy battle

JK Rowling has won a High Court appeal in her fight to protect her five-year-old son from intrusive photographers

Nick Hornby and Marina Lewycka

Tesco accused of 'chilling' tactics

Supermarket chain condemned for taking a critic to court over a speech that decried company’s expansion in Thailand

Halting the far Right with critical analysis

Historians press authorities to bring out a new edition of Adolf Hitler’s poisonously anti-Semitic manifesto, Mein Kampf

Reading masses discover British Library

Undergraduates are flocking to the British Library, sparking a backlash from the library’s more established residents

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English author David Lodge

Deaf Sentence by David Lodge

The Sunday Times review by Hugo Barnacle: big twists and literary conceits from the Man Booker-longlisted novelist

Ma Jian, one of China'smost influential writers

Beijing Coma by Ma Jian

The Times review by Jonathan Fenby

The Master and Margarita: A graphic novel by Mikhail Bulakov

The Times review by Neel Mukherjee

Just Henry (10+) by Michelle Magorian

The Times review by Amanda Craig

Doris Lessing and Richard Mason: fame and literary misfortune

Why winning the glittering prizes for your novel can be bad news for your writing

Novel About My Wife by Emily Perkins

The Sunday Times review by Lindsay Duguid: a haunting novel of suburban menace

The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry

The Sunday Times review by Hugo Barnacle: big twists and literary conceits from the Man Booker-longlisted novelist

Glister: the new John Burnside novel

The author of A Lie About My Father looks at the devastation job losses can cause in an industrial town

Six must-reads for romantics on holiday

The Sunday Times reviews by Elizabeth Buchan: the latest in romantic fiction from Mavis Cheek, Alison Weir and Anne Fine, among others

Paperback - Self Help by Edward Docx

The Times review by Christina Koning

Paperback - According to Ruth by Jane Feaver

The Times review by Christina Koning

Iain Finlayson's non-fiction reviews of the week: May 10, 2008

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The Times review by Ross Leckie

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The Times review by Ross Leckie

Paperback - 20 Years with Brian Clough by Duncan Hamilton

The Times review by Ross Leckie

Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker: The Sunday Times review by Max Hastings

The Sunday Times review by Max Hastings: should Churchill and Roosevelt be put in history's dock as warmongers?

Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore

The Sunday Times review by Nick Rennison

The Original Highway Code

Iain Finlayson's non-fiction reviews of the week: May 10, 2008

The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith and To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Two classic books revived in audio form. The Times reviews by Christina Hardyment

The Original Highway Code

Renegade: the Lives and Tales of Mark E. Smith by Mark E. Smith

The Times review by Mark Hodkinson. This story of the iracible leader of post-punk favorites The Fall is a self-help book as much as it is a rock...

Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science by John D Barrow

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Cabeza de Vaca: The holy conquistador

He gave gifts to the natives, and won them over with love and miracles

Edward Said's shadowy legacy

Tricky with argument, weak in languages, careless of facts: but, thirty years on, Said still dominates debate

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