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John Mullan

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Guessing games

  • 07 February 2008

John Mullan recalls that curiosity and concealment have a grand literary history

Power politics

  • 26 February 2007

The Great Man: Sir Robert Walpole - scoundrel, genius and Britain's first prime minister
Edward Pearce Jonathan Cape, 496pp, £25
ISBN 0224071815

Life drawing

  • 06 November 2006

City of Laughter: sex and satire in 18th-century London
Vic Gatrell Atlantic Books, 696pp, £30
ISBN 1843543214
Our national obsession with political sleaze and celebrity misbehaviour is nothing new. John Mullan on the scurrilous ancestors of Scarfe, Steadman and Spitting Image

Critical faculties

  • 01 May 2006

Incredible Bodies
Ian McGuire Bloomsbury, 372pp, £12.99
ISBN 0747578478

Tangled web

  • 20 March 2006

The Helmet of Horror
Victor Pelevin Canongate, 288pp, £12
ISBN 1841957054

Fiction - Young pretender

  • 30 January 2006

The Third Brother
Nick McDonell Atlantic Books, 267pp, £10.99
ISBN 1843544776

Fiction - The weight of history

  • 26 September 2005

Shalimar the Clown
Salman Rushdie Jonathan Cape, 398pp, £17.99
ISBN 0224061615

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