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Old Irish ways

Carmen Callil — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:00:00 GMT

Memoir John McGahern Faber & Faber, 272pp, �16.99 ISBN 0571228100

Paperback writer

Carmen Callil — Mon, 30 May 2005 12:00:00 GMT

Penguin Special: the life and times of Allen Lane Jeremy Lewis Viking, 484pp, �25 ISBN 0670914851

Dangerous liaisons

Carmen Callil — Mon, 15 Sep 2003 12:00:00 GMT

The Affair of the Poisons: murder, infanticide and Satanism at the court of Louis XIV Anne Somerset Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 377pp, �20 ISBN 0297842161

A fine Trollopel

Carmen Callil — Mon, 01 Sep 2003 12:00:00 GMT

Fanny: a fiction Edmund White Chatto & Windus, 328pp, �16.99 ISBN 0701169710

Disgrace

Carmen Callil — Mon, 23 Jun 2003 12:00:00 GMT

Loot Nadine Gordimer Bloomsbury, 240pp, �16.99 ISBN 0747564973

Poor old me

Carmen Callil — Mon, 19 May 2003 12:00:00 GMT

Giving up the Ghost: a memoir Hilary Mantel Fourth Estate, 246pp, �16.99

Action man

Carmen Callil — Mon, 09 Apr 2001 12:00:00 GMT

Known to thousands as "Le Maitre", Charles Maurras was an intellectual giant of the French canon. A formidable journalist and polemicist, he was also a man of violent words, a philosopher of fascism

Tout compris

Carmen Callil — Mon, 16 Aug 1999 12:00:00 GMT

France in the New Century: Portrait of a Changing Society John Ardagh Viking, 800pp, �20 ISBN 0670883603

Pinochet, like Stalin and Franco but unlike Hitler, really liked killing his own people

Carmen Callil — Fri, 11 Dec 1998 12:00:00 GMT