Jan Morris

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Unsung hero of the revolution. In 1848, after decades of foreign occupation, Venice rose up against its oppressors. The revolt was led not by a dashing general or aristocratic poet, but by a spectacle-wearing middle-class lawyer. By Jan Morris

  • 22 August 2005

The Siege of Venice Jonathan Keates Chatto & Windus, 495pp, £20 ISBN 0701166371

Beyond the fringe

  • 01 January 2005

The Last of the Celts Marcus Tanner Yale University Press, 398pp, £25 ISBN 0300104642

Heavens above

  • 16 August 2004

The Book Nobody Read Owen Gingerich, William Heinemann, 306pp, £12.99 ISBN 0802714153

The president steps down

  • 15 March 2004

Radio - Jan Morris has been waiting 40 years for Alistair Cooke to do the decent thing

The flower of New Amsterdam. What made New York the vibrant, liberal place it is today - and the epitome of western arrogance and greed? It wasn't the English influence but the city's brief, often overlooked period as a Dutch colony that gave Manhattan its eclectic soul

  • 08 March 2004

The Island at the Centre of the World: the untold story of Dutch Manhattan and the founding of New York Russell Shorto Doubleday, 432pp, £18.99 ISBN 038560324X

Titanic scale

  • 12 January 2004

Castles of Steel Robert K Massie Jonathan Cape, 884pp, £25 ISBN 0679456716

A dream place

  • 10 November 2003

At Home in Australia Peter Conrad Thames & Hudson, 256pp, £24.95 ISBN 0500511411

A beast, an angel and a madman

  • 20 October 2003

Dylan Thomas: a new life Andrew Lycett Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 434pp, £20 ISBN 0297607936

The big picture

  • 18 August 2003

The Americas: the history of a hemisphere Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 235pp, £12.99 ISBN 1842127136

City of hope

  • 07 July 2003

The Birth of Sydney: the story of Britain's arrival in the Antipodes Edited and introduced by Tim Flannery William Heinemann, 349pp, £20 ISBN 0434008761

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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