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Great Books from the Wrong Point of View No.2
20 March 2006

Oliver Twist In Dickens's novel, Oliver is lucky to escape the clutches of Fagin an

Books
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
13 March 2006

Return to Akenfield

Craig Taylor

Granta Books, 288pp, £14.99

ISBN 1862078874

Books
The hidden story of. . . Emma
06 February 2006

In Jane Austen's novel, the heroine receives an unwelcome marriage proposal from the spruce and smil

UK Politics
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
07 November 2005

God's Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth's forbidden priests and the hatching of the gunpowder plot

Al

Books
Offshoots
26 September 2005

Bamboo: non-fiction 1978-2004

William Boyd Hamish Hamilton, 650pp, £20

ISBN 0241143055

Books
Bumps in the night
11 July 2005

Arthur and George

Julian Barnes Jonathan Cape, 360p, £17.99

ISBN 0224077031

Books
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
16 May 2005

Never Had It So Good: a history of Britain from Suez to the Beatles

Dominic Sandbrook Little,

Books
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
27 September 2004

Mind the Gap: the new class divide in Britain

Ferdinand Mount Short Books, 316pp, £14.99

Sport
Let Bolton have the tomatoes
06 September 2004

Observations on the Edinburgh festival

Sport
The lost tribes
21 June 2004

The Church of England, the unions, the political parties - even our football team - have let us down

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