MARCH 2005

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CRIME SILENCED VOICES AUDIOBOOK PAPERBACKS POETRY COMPETITION CROSSWORD LRBOOKSHOP CLASSIFIEDS

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BARNABY R OGERSON The Ha ll of a Thou sa nd Co lunms: Hindu star1 to Ma labar with l bn Battutah Tim Ma c kintosh - Smith C HRI STO PHER 0NDAATJE Th eatre of Fish: Tra vels through Newfoundland and Labrador J ohn Gim.l e t te

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P ETERJON ES Th e Co losse um Keith Hopkins a nd Mary B ea rd M ICHAEL PROWSE Aga inst th e Flow: R eflecti ons of an Individualist S am u e l Brittan P AUL BINDING 77u Tower of Landon : Tales of Victorian London Nats ume Soseki 39 A C GRAYLIN G T he 21 st-Century Brain: Explai11ing,

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M endi11g and Manipula t ing th e Mind St eve n Ro se DAVID SINGMA STER Th e Infinit e Book: A Short Guide to the Boundless, Tim ele ss and Endless John D Barro w PAUL D AV !ES Empire of th e Stars Art h ur I Mill er LE O M c KIN STR v Th e Vote: How It Was Won a11d H ow It Wa s Undermin ed Pau l Foot J OHN M ICHELL Aliens: Why Th ey Are H ere Brya n App leya rd

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DJ T AY L R Never L et M e Go K az uo Is hi g ur o MI CHAEL ARDITT I Sma ll Crimes in an Age of Abundance M a t th ew Kn ea le SAM LEITH Expos J.Jre Ta li tha S teve n so n FRANCIS KI NG GJ.wrdian of th e Dawn Ri c h a rd Zim.ler J O HN DUGDA LE How W e Are Hungry Da ve Egge r s M ARTYN BEDFORD Summer in Baden -Baden Leo nid Tsypkin C HRI S BRAY Th e Monsters of Gram ercy Park D a nn y Leigh ALAN RAFFERTY Th e O ld Ladies of Naz areth Na i m Attallah T OM T EODO R CZ UK All For L ove D a n J aco b so n LIND Y BURLEIGH Read er, I Marri ed Him Mi c h e l e Rob e rt s SEBAST IAN SHAKESPEARE Th e I nsatiable Spiderman P e dro Juan G u t ie rrez M ELI SSA M cC LEMENTS A Town by tl1e S ea Chris P aling LUCY B ERESFO RD O N FIR. ST NOVELS

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PHILIP 0 AKES LUCY P OPESCU SU SAN CROSLAND

R. ICHAI>..D H OLMES i s Profe sso r of Military and Sec urity tand a rd s at C r a nfi e ld University a nd the R oya l Mil itary Coll ege of Science. Hi s m os t r ece nt b oo k i s In th e Footsteps cif Churchill.

ISAHEL QUIGLY was for ten years t he film c riti c at The Spectator, and was mo re rece ntl y th e lit e ra ry editor of The Tablet. H e r books includ e Th e Heirs of To111 Brow11.

DJ TAYLOR's new nov e l, Kept (se t in W es t N o rfo lk in 1864), wi ll be published ea rl y in 2006.

PAUL DAVIES is Professo r of Natural Phil osop hy in the Australian Centre for Astr o bi o logy a t M ac qu a ri e University, Sydn ey . He is th e auth o r of ove r twenty books, bo th spec iali st a nd popular. Th e m os t r ece nt is Hou' to B11ild a Ti111 e Marhi11 c.

M ARTYN BEDFORD teac hes C rea ti ve Writing a t th e University of M a n c h ester. Hi s fifth n ove l , Th e Island cif Lost So uls, wi ll be publ ished by Bloomsbury in 2006.

M ICHAEL AR.D IITI's new novel, Uuity, will be published by Maia in Jun e.

DAVID SINGMASTE R wrote th e fir st book on Rubik 's Cube and i s an expert on recreational mathematics. He was unti l rece ntl y th e Professo r of Math ematics at South Bank Un ive!liity.

J OHN MI CHELL, bo rn in 1933, has wri t t en m any boo ks, ge n era ll y on anc ie nt knowledge and th e mysteries of o ur ex iste n ce. H e writes th e O rth odox Vo ice column in -n,e Oldie.

PHILIP OAKES h as been hai led as t he b est c rim e c ri t i c o f the year in auth oritative c rim e j o urnal C AD S. H e is int e r v iewe d in the c urr e nt iss ue of C ri111 e Ti111 e.

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