Olivia Shean

Articles by Olivia Shean

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Cut-throat captain

  • 05 July 2007

Empire of Blue Water: Henry Morgan and the Pirates Who Ruled the Caribbean Waves Stephan Talty Simon & Schuster, 352pp, £11.99

Writers uncovered

  • 21 May 2007

How I Write: the secret lives of authors Edited by Dan Crowe, with Philip Oltermann Rizzoli, 192pp, £19.95 ISBN 0847829421

Writing on the wall

  • 05 February 2007

Graffiti My Soul Niven Govinden Canongate, 224pp, £10.99 ISBN 1841958883

Would like to meet . . .

  • 11 December 2006

They Call Me Naughty Lola: the London Review of Books personal ads – a reader Edited by David Rose Profile Books, 192pp, £8.99

Magician's secrets

  • 29 November 2006

Tricks of the Mind Derren Brown Channel 4 Books, 390pp, £18.99 ISBN 1905026269

Notes from abroad

  • 13 November 2006

Looking for Trouble: the life and times of a foreign correspondent Richard Beeston Tauris Parke, 178pp, £10.99 ISBN 1845112776

Literary lives

  • 06 November 2006

The History of England Jane Austen and Charles Dickens Introduction by David Starkey Icon, 160pp, £9.99 ISBN 1840467835

Student bashing

  • 30 October 2006
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A Campus Conspiracy Anonymous Impress Books, 208pp, £7.99 ISBN 0954758676

Soap-opera revolution

  • 23 October 2006

The Lieutenant's Lover Harry Bingham HarperCollins, 442pp, £6.99 ISBN 0007205511

Hunter gatherer

  • 15 October 2006

The Joke’s Over: memories of Hunter S Thompson Ralph Steadman William Heinemann, 396pp, £20 ISBN 0434016063

Afghanistan

Doomed to failure

Two sides of the Coin

Hung parliament

Who would rule?

Doing deals in Downing Street

Interview

Seymour Hersh

The NS Interview: Seymour Hersh

Television

Paradox

Paradox

What if...

The Beatles never formed

What if .... the Beatles had never formed

Will Self

Eats at Subway

Attack of the one-foot sandwich

Iraq war

We want a trial

Iraq, Palin and building bridges

Books of the year

Our selection

Books of the Year: Part I

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