<![CDATA[books]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books en Lights! Camera! Fiction! http://www.newstatesman.com/200805080045 http://www.newstatesman.com/200805080045 Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Chris Weitz Chris Weitz reviews a history of the trade]]> Old Spanish practices http://www.newstatesman.com/200805080046 http://www.newstatesman.com/200805080046 Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Jason Webster Imagining Spain: Historical Myth and National Identity
Henry Kamen
Yale University Press, 240pp, £25]]> Rich and strange http://www.newstatesman.com/200805080047 http://www.newstatesman.com/200805080047 Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Nicola Shulman Walter Rothschild: the Man, the Museum and the Menagerie
Miriam Rothschild
Natural History Museum, 432pp, £9.99]]> Cast the first Stone http://www.newstatesman.com/200805080048 http://www.newstatesman.com/200805080048 Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Jonathan Meades Sway
Zachary Lazar
Jonathan Cape, 272pp, £11.99]]> Paragons of bad faith http://www.newstatesman.com/200805080049 http://www.newstatesman.com/200805080049 Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Matthew Taunton A Dangerous Liaison
Carole Seymour-Jones Century, 392pp, £20]]> Rock’n’roll heroines http://www.newstatesman.com/200805080050 http://www.newstatesman.com/200805080050 Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Yo Zushi Girls Like Us
Sheila Weller Ebury Press, 592pp, £18.99]]> Victorian voyages http://www.newstatesman.com/200805080051 http://www.newstatesman.com/200805080051 Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Matthew Taunton A Corkscrew Is Most Useful
Nicholas Murray Little, Brown, 544p, £25]]> After the sugar rush http://www.newstatesman.com/200805080052 http://www.newstatesman.com/200805080052 Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Yo Zushi Rum: a Social and Sociable History
Ian Williams Nation Books, 340pp, £9.99]]> Robot love http://www.newstatesman.com/200805030004 http://www.newstatesman.com/200805030004 Sat, 03 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Natasha Periyan Brush up your Shakespeare http://www.newstatesman.com/200805010010 http://www.newstatesman.com/200805010010 Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Jamila Gavin Promises and betrayals http://www.newstatesman.com/200805010042 http://www.newstatesman.com/200805010042 Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Robert Fisk Vorsprung durch Technik http://www.newstatesman.com/200805010043 http://www.newstatesman.com/200805010043 Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Michael Bywater Love and Sex With Robots: the Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships
David Levy Duckworth, 320pp, £12.99]]> Revolutions all round http://www.newstatesman.com/200805010044 http://www.newstatesman.com/200805010044 Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Owen Hatherley Sergey Prokofiev: Diaries (1915-1922) - Behind the Mask
Edited by Anthony Phillips Faber & Faber, 784pp, £30]]> Killing communism http://www.newstatesman.com/200805010045 http://www.newstatesman.com/200805010045 Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Mary Dejevsky Yeltsin: a Life
Timothy J Colton Basic Books, 616pp, £20.99]]> The war against babies http://www.newstatesman.com/200805010046 http://www.newstatesman.com/200805010046 Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT Elizabeth Pisani Fatal Misconception: the Struggle to Control World Population
Matthew Connelly Harvard University Press, 544pp, £22.95]]>