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Kissinger: The Year He Held The Us Together
Kissinger’s Year: 1973 BY ALISTAIR HORNE WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON, £20 A listair Horne, the distinguished British historian of modern France with more than 20 books to his credit,......
The Poet Who Sniped From The Sidelines
The Epigrams of Sir John Harington BY GERARD KILROY ASHGATE , £60 J ohn Harington was happiest when far away from the intrigues of the Elizabethan and Jacobean courts. He......
Music
Tristan und Isolde ROH, TUESDAY, SEPT 29 Wagner’s lengthy masterwork about two doomed lovers gets a new staging here by the famously temperamental German director Christof Loy.......
Cinema
The Soloist 12A CERT, 117 MINS The Soloist , based on a series of articles in the Los Angeles Times , concerns Nathaniel Ayers (Jamie Foxx), a talented violinist who suffers......
Theatre
An Inspector Calls WYNDHAMʼS THEATRE Stephen Daldry made a brilliant debut at the National Theatre in 1992 with this production and it launched his distinguished career. J B......
Television
When Piers Met Sir Cliff ITV1, 9.15PM, SATURDAY SEPT 26 The former Daily Mirror editor heads off to the Caribbean home of pop legend and Christian Sir Cliff Richard for a rare......
Dvd
Five Minutes of Heaven DETAILS Based on the life of Alistair Little, a former member of the Ulster Volunteer Force, Five Minutes of Heaven is a powerfully unsentimental......
Cd
Tom Russell: Blood and Candle Smoke £9.99, ROUNDER Tom Russell, now in his 60s, is one of the enduring chroniclers of Americana. With his gruff voice and country-folk stylings,......
Wedlock By Wendy Moore (phoenix, £8.99) The British...
the 21st century have a great thirst for the squalor of 18th century – maybe it’s reassuring to know things have been this bad before. They also have an appetite for lively,......
The Atheistʼs Guide To Christmas By Ariane Sherine...
Probably the last book any Herald reader will be likely to find in their stockings this year, The Atheist’s Guide to Christmas is somewhat less controversial than its title......
Sway By Ori Brafman And Rom Brafman (virgin Books, £7.99)
Sociology has become trendy, or at least a populist form of social anthropology. It began with Gladwell’s Tipping Point , continued through Freakonomics and peaked with Damian......
Seven Deadly Sins By Aviad Kleinberg (harvard University...
All societies have their rules on right and wrong. All societies have a version of sin woven into their moral law. The most famous of these is, of course, the Seven Deadly Sins......
Nine Lives By William Dalrymple (bloomsbury, £20)
William Dalrymple made his name writing travel books on India, such as City of Djinns , that were also historical treatises. With this, his first travel book in over a decade,......