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- 16 May 2012 (585 words)
- Travels in Tandem (Susanna Hoe)
The Writing of Women and Men Who Travelled Together
- 7 May 2012 (237)
- Billancourt Tales (Nina Berberova)
- stories of Paris' White Russian community around 1930
- 27 April 2012 (374)
- The Queen Against Defoe (Stefan Heym)
And Other Stories
- 23 April 2012 (369)
- The Palace of Dreams (Ismail Kadare)
- an Ottoman bureaucracy managing dreams
- 19 April 2012 (332)
- German Quickly (April Wilson)
A Grammar for Reading German
- 17 April 2012 (560)
- A History of Wales (John Davies)
- a dense but rewarding narrative
The Making of Wales (John Davies)
- 16 April 2012 (466)
- The March of the Musicians (Per Olov Enquist)
- a novel about labour unrest in Sweden's bleak north
- 2 April 2012 (836)
- Poor Economics (Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo)
A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
- 29 March 2012 (390)
- *All One Horse (Breyten Breytenbach)
- dream fables and surreal paintings
- 22 March 2012 (665)
- Pakistan: A Hard Country (Anatol Lieven)
- a broad-ranging survey of its contemporary politics
- 19 March 2012 (380)
- Gaudy Night (Dorothy L. Sayers)
- mischief and mayhem in an Oxford women's college
- 12 March 2012 (1048)
- Portfolios of the Poor (Daryl Collins et al.)
How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day
- 4 March 2012 (379)
- Three Generations (Yom Sang-seop)
- tensions in a bourgeois Korean family around 1930
- 2 March 2012 (552)
- The Caucasus: An Introduction (Thomas de Waal)
- the modern history of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia
- 29 February 2012 (496)
- *Lost Books of Medieval China (Glen Dudbridge)
- learning from the reconstruction of lost texts
- 18 February 2012 (484)
- Love in a Fallen City (Eileen Chang)
- novellas about women in 1930s Hong Kong and Shanghai
- 7 February 2012 (557)
- Please Look After Mom (Shin Kyung-Sook)
- the life of a Korean woman and her family
- 2 February 2012 (817)
- One Illness Away (Anirudh Krishna)
Why People Become Poor and How they Escape Poverty
- 29 January 2012 (738)
- 1788: A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay (Watkin Tench)
+ A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson
- 31 December 2011 (387)
- German: A Linguistic Introduction (Sarah M.B. Fagan)
- language structure, history, and contemporary use
- 14 December 2011 (632)
- *Metropole (Ferenc Karinthy)
- trapped in a crowded city with an incomprehensible language
- 12 December 2011 (1348)
- The Long Thaw (David Archer)
How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate
- 9 December 2011 (257)
- Oliver VII (Antal Szerb)
- a slight but charming entertainment
- 5 December 2011 (453)
- The Elements of Graphing Data (William S. Cleveland)
- effective graphical presentation of data
- 28 November 2011 (1986)
- **The Story of the Stone (Cao Xueqin)
- the great Chinese novel, aka The Dream of the Red Chamber
- 26 November 2011 (327)
- *Savushun (Simin Daneshvar)
A Novel About Modern Iran
- 21 November 2011 (1579)
- **Microeconomics (Samuel Bowles)
Behavior, Institutions, and Evolution
- 11 November 2011 (1027)
- The Development of Atmospheric General Circulation Models (Donner, Schubert, Somerville)
Complexity, Synthesis and Computation
- 10 November 2011 (901)
- The Wandering Who? (Gilad Atzmon)
A Study of Jewish Identity Politics
- 6 November 2011 (441)
- *Population Genetics (John H. Gillespie)
A Concise Guide
- 30 October 2011 (1708)
- Higher Speculations (Helge Kragh)
Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology
- 21 October 2011 (547)
- *An Instance of the Fingerpost (Iain Pears)
- murder, espionage and controversy in Restoration Oxford
- 14 October 2011 (1220)
- Evolution: A View from the 21st Century (James A. Shapiro)
- natural genetic engineering and the read-write genome
- 3 October 2011 (675)
- Oxford (Jan Morris)
- a potpourri of information about the town and university
- 22 September 2011 (771)
- *The Making of the British Landscape (Francis Pryor)
How We Have Transformed the Land, from Prehistory to Today
- 20 September 2011 (424)
- Last Rites (Michael Hampson)
The End of the Church of England
- 13 September 2011 (307)
- A Brief History of the Normans (François Neveux)
The Conquests that Changed the Face of Europe
- 22 August 2011 (1682)
- Empires of the Silk Road (Christopher I. Beckwith)
A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
- 19 August 2011 (226)
- *Ferdydurke (Witold Gombrowicz)
- a comedy of pedagogy and identity
- 18 August 2011 (871)
- *Schooling in Western Europe (Mary Jo Maynes)
- the introduction of mass elementary education
- 12 August 2011 (760)
- Religions of the Silk Road (Richard Foltz)
Premodern Patterns of Globalization
- 9 August 2011 (364)
- The Bad Book Affair (Ian Sansom)
- social comedy in a northern Ireland backwater
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