New Statesman - <![CDATA[Robert Winder]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/robert_winder en <![CDATA[Great Books from the Wrong Point of View No.2]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200603200048 http://www.newstatesman.com/200603200048 Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:00:00 GMT Robert Winder Oliver Twist In Dickens's novel, Oliver is lucky to escape the clutches of Fagin and his gang. Told from another point of view, however, the story might seem rather different. Fagin, we would see, is doing very nicely in London - until Oliver Twist turns up and ruins everything

]]> <![CDATA[On the far side of the ring road. Village life used to revolve around farming and religion. But now churchgoing is dwindling and the harvesting is done by itinerant workers. Robert Winder on our changing countryside]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200603130036 http://www.newstatesman.com/200603130036 Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:00:00 GMT Robert Winder Return to Akenfield Craig Taylor Granta Books, 288pp, £14.99 ISBN 1862078874

]]> <![CDATA[The hidden story of. . . Emma]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200602060040 http://www.newstatesman.com/200602060040 Mon, 06 Feb 2006 12:00:00 GMT Robert Winder In Jane Austen's novel, the heroine receives an unwelcome marriage proposal from the spruce and smiling local vicar, Mr Elton. He plainly doesn't deserve her. But told from another point of view, the story might seem rather different . .

]]> <![CDATA[Losing the plot. Four hundred years ago, Catholic conspirators gathered in dark Westminster cellars, preparing to assassinate the king and parliament. Robert Winder on why we should remember them]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200511070038 http://www.newstatesman.com/200511070038 Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:00:00 GMT Robert Winder God's Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth's forbidden priests and the hatching of the gunpowder plot Alice Hogge HarperCollins, 445pp, £20 ISBN 0007156375 Gunpowder Plots: a celebration of 400 years of bonfire night Various Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 188pp, £14.99 Remember Remember the Fifth of November James Sharpe Profile Books, 230pp, £15.99 Gunpowder: the story Clive Ponting Chatto & Windus, 256pp, £16.99

]]> <![CDATA[Offshoots]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200509260041 http://www.newstatesman.com/200509260041 Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:00:00 GMT Robert Winder Bamboo: non-fiction 1978-2004 William Boyd Hamish Hamilton, 650pp, £20 ISBN 0241143055

]]> <![CDATA[Bumps in the night]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200507110044 http://www.newstatesman.com/200507110044 Mon, 11 Jul 2005 12:00:00 GMT Robert Winder Arthur and George Julian Barnes Jonathan Cape, 360p, £17.99 ISBN 0224077031

]]> <![CDATA[Highs and lows. The Sixties may have been a good time to be a photographer or guitarist, but for most people life carried on much the same. By Robert Winder]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200505160034 http://www.newstatesman.com/200505160034 Mon, 16 May 2005 12:00:00 GMT Robert Winder Never Had It So Good: a history of Britain from Suez to the Beatles Dominic Sandbrook Little, Brown, 824pp, £20 ISBN 0316860832

]]> <![CDATA[People like us. The class divide gapes wider than ever, shaping everything, from our feelings about fox-hunting to what we watch on TV. By Robert Winder]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200409270047 http://www.newstatesman.com/200409270047 Mon, 27 Sep 2004 12:00:00 GMT Robert Winder Mind the Gap: the new class divide in Britain Ferdinand Mount Short Books, 316pp, £14.99 ISBN 1904095941

]]> <![CDATA[Let Bolton have the tomatoes]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200409060010 http://www.newstatesman.com/200409060010 Mon, 06 Sep 2004 12:00:00 GMT Robert Winder Observations on the Edinburgh festival

]]> <![CDATA[The lost tribes]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200406210003 http://www.newstatesman.com/200406210003 Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:00:00 GMT Robert Winder The Church of England, the unions, the political parties - even our football team - have let us down. Yet our need to belong makes us look for new allegiances, whether they be book clubs or the Kabbalah cult. It can also make us putty in unscrupulous hands

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