Francis Gilbert
Articles by Francis Gilbert
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Novel of the week
- 02 July 2001
A Son of War Melvyn Bragg Sceptre, 426pp, £16.99 ISBN 0340734159
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Commentary - Afflicted by the stiff upper lip
- 05 March 2001
Francis Gilbert laments the ignorance of the modern British reader
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Mugging de Queen's English
- 15 January 2001
Commentary - Francis Gilbert applauds the culling of poetry's old guard from the school curriculum
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Undercover hero
- 13 November 2000
Maskerado: dancing around death in Nazi Hungary Tivadar Soros Canongate, 208pp, £14.99 ISBN 1841950629
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Commentary - Real presence
- 24 July 2000
Francis Gilbert on the return of the ghost story in contemporary fiction
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School report
- 29 May 2000
The Learning Game: a teacher's inspirational story Jonathan Smith Little, Brown, 252pp, £14.99 ISBN 0316854212 Bad Boys, Bad Men: confronting antisocial personality disorder Donald W Black and C Lindon Larson OUP, 256pp, £9.50
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Speak memory
- 10 April 2000
Chasing Shadows: memories of a vanished world Hugo Gryn, with Naomi Gryn Viking, 300pp, £16.99 ISBN 0670887935
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"I will arise again"
- 20 December 1999
Last month, after completing his biography of London, Peter Ackroyd suffered a huge heart attack. He still spends every night in hospital. In his first interview since that setback, he speaks to Francis Gilbert about Aids, death and the book that nearly killed him
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Useful Idiots
- 08 November 1999
Under the Red Flag: A History of Communism in Britain Keith Laybourn & Dylan Murphy Sutton Publishing, 256pp, £25 ISBN 0750914858
