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astronomy

Thomas Jones: Short Cuts · 18 August 2005

Francis Spufford: Operation Backfire · 28 October 1999

Tim Radford: Cosmic! · 5 March 1998

  • Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon by James Harford
  • Countdown: A History of Space Flight by T.A. Heppenheimer
  • Something New under the Sun: Satellites and the Beginning of the Space Age by Helen Gavaghan
  • Space and the American Imagination by Howard McCurdy

John Leslie: Fine-Tuned for Life · 1 January 1998

  • Before the Beginning by Martin Rees
  • The Life of the Cosmos by Lee Smolin

australasia

Chloe Hooper: Kindred Spirits · 18 August 2005

Tom Nairn: Diary · 18 November 2004

Greg Dening: Standing on the Wharf, Weeping · 25 September 2003

  • The Enlightenment and the Origins of European Australia by John Gascoigne
  • Looking for Blackfella’s Point: An Australian History of Place by Mark McKenna
  • Words for Country: Landscape and Language in Australia by Tim Bonyhady and Tom Griffiths
  • The Land Is a Map: Placenames of Indigenous Origin in Australia edited by Luise Hercus, Flavia Hodges and Jane Simpson

aviation

Peter Campbell: At the Science Museum · 3 February 2005

Richard Adams: Flying Costs · 2 September 2004

  • Aircraft by David Pascoe  Buy this book
  • Aviation Insecurity: The New Challenges of Air Travel by Andrew Thomas  Buy this book
  • Airline Survival Kit by Nawal Taneja
  • Ryanair by Siobhán Creaton

Robert Macfarlane: Seven Miles per Hour · 5 February 2004

  • First to Fly: The Unlikely Triumph of Wilbur and Orville Wright by James Tobin
  • The Wright Brothers: The Aviation Pioneers who Changed the World by Ian Mackersey
  • Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight by Paul Hoffman
  • Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity to the First World War by Richard Hallion

Francis Spufford: Love that Bird · 6 June 2002

E.S. Turner: Gas-Bags · 15 November 2001

  • Dr Eckener’s Dream Machine: The Historic Saga of the Round-the-World Zeppelin by Douglas Botting

Ian Hamilton: Diary · 29 April 1999

bibliography

Leah Price: ‘Très vrai!’ · 18 October 2001

  • Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books by H.J. Jackson

Joanna Kavenna: The Inner Lives of Quiet Women · 21 September 2000

  • May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian by Suzanne Raitt

Jason Harding: Dipper · 21 September 2000

  • George Moore, 1852-1933 by Adrian Frazier

biogenetics

Slavoj Žižek: Bring me my Philips Mental Jacket · 22 May 2003

Thomas Jones: Short Cuts · 19 September 2002

biography

Tim Parks: After the Earthquake · 9 July 2009

  • Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone by Stanislao Pugliese  Buy this book

Rosemarie Bodenheimer: Give us a break · 9 July 2009

Ruth Bernard Yeazell: I whine for her like a babe · 25 June 2009

  • Alice in Jamesland: The Story of Alice Howe Gibbens James by Susan Gunter  Buy this book

Jonathan Rée: Dispersed and Distracted · 25 June 2009

  • Leibniz: An Intellectual Biography by Maria Rosa Antognazza  Buy this book

Bee Wilson: They didn’t have my fire · 25 June 2009

  • The Settler’s Cookbook: A Memoir of Love, Migration and Food by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown  Buy this book

Jenny Diski: Queening It · 25 June 2009

Helen Deutsch: A Light-Blue Stocking · 14 May 2009

  • Hester: The Remarkable Life of Dr Johnson’s ‘Dear Mistress’ by Ian McIntyre  Buy this book

Michael Wood: A Preference for Torquemada · 9 April 2009

  • Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy: The Making of GKC 1874-1908 by William Oddie  Buy this book
  • The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton  Buy this book

Rosemary Hill: Written out of Revenge · 9 April 2009

  • Love’s Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen & Charles Ritchie Letters and Diaries 1941-73 edited by Victoria Glendinning, with Judith Robertson  Buy this book
  • People, Places, Things: Essays by Elizabeth Bowen edited by Allan Hepburn  Buy this book

Neal Ascherson: How Does It Add Up? · 12 March 2009

Richard Gott: Liberation Music · 12 March 2009

David Kaiser: A x B ≠ B x A · 26 February 2009

  • The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius by Graham Farmelo  Buy this book

Stefan Collini: Delighted to See Himself · 12 February 2009

Colm Tóibín: Urning · 29 January 2009

  • Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love by Sheila Rowbotham  Buy this book

Thomas Jones: Hypnotise Her · 29 January 2009

  • Axel Munthe: The Road to San Michele by Bengt Jangfeldt, translated by Harry Watson  Buy this book

Michael Newton: Babylon with Bananas · 29 January 2009

Andrew O’Hagan: Artovsky Millensky · 1 January 2009

David Edgar: Exit Humbug · 1 January 2009

Alison Light: Lady Talky · 18 December 2008

  • Bloomsbury Ballerina: Lydia Lopokova, Imperial Dancer and Mrs John Maynard Keynes by Judith Mackrell  Buy this book

Caleb Crain: Good at Being Gods · 18 December 2008

  • Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe edited by K. Michael Hays and Dana Miller  Buy this book

Adam Phillips: Self-Made Aristocrats · 4 December 2008

  • The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War by Alexander Waugh  Buy this book

Hugh Pennington: Beware Bad Smells · 4 December 2008

  • Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend by Mark Bostridge  Buy this book

Paul Mitchinson: Speech Melodies · 4 December 2008

Ange Mlinko: If Only Analogues... · 20 November 2008

Colm Tóibín: I Could Sleep with All of Them · 6 November 2008

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

Bernard Porter: It Just Sounded Good · 23 October 2008

  • Star of the Morning: The Extraordinary Life of Lady Hester Stanhope by Kirsten Ellis  Buy this book

Andrew Saint: On Jews Walk · 9 October 2008

Andrew O’Hagan: Candle Moments · 25 September 2008

Mark Ford: Time of the Red-Man · 25 September 2008

Sheila Fitzpatrick: Like a Thunderbolt · 11 September 2008

  • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn by Liudmila Saraskina

Liz Brown: Miss Lachrymose · 11 September 2008

  • Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door by David Kaufman  Buy this book

Dan Jacobson: Probably, Perhaps · 14 August 2008

  • The Red Prince: The Fall of a Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Europe by Timothy Snyder  Buy this book

Stefan Collini: Upwards and Onwards · 31 July 2008

Roxanne Varzi: Miniskirt Democracy · 31 July 2008

  • Soft Weapons: Autobiography in Transit by Gillian Whitlock  Buy this book

Helen Deutsch: My Faults, My Follies · 17 July 2008

  • Queen of the Wits: A Life of Laetitia Pilkington by Norma Clarke  Buy this book

Ruth Bernard Yeazell: Howl, Howl, Howl! · 22 May 2008

Michael Dobson: Father-Daughter Problems · 8 May 2008

Elisabeth Ladenson: Someone like Maman · 8 May 2008

  • Madame Proust: A Biography by Evelyne Bloch-Dano, translated by Alice Kaplan  Buy this book

Hilary Mantel: Frocks and Shocks · 24 April 2008

Thomas Jones: Whisky and Soda Man · 10 April 2008

  • Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton – An Autobiography by J.G. Ballard  Buy this book

Ferdinand Mount: Adored Gazelle · 20 March 2008

Megan Marshall: Pretty Letters · 21 February 2008

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