12 February 2012 12:00 AM
"She exuded some magic warmth that was hers alone," gushes the Life magazine photographer and Hollywood portraitist Bob Willoughby in this book about his favourite subject, Audrey Hepburn.
12 February 2012 12:00 AM
Who are Dave Scott, Mark Allen and Chrissie Wellington? Let's take the first two for starters, as indeed the Americans were as they lined up for the 1989 Ironman World Championship in Hawaii.
12 February 2012 12:00 AM
12 February 2012 12:00 AM
One small keystroke for mankind
12 February 2012 12:00 AM
A boy who's never been to school, but has something to teach us all
12 February 2012 12:00 AM
Not enough story to tell – how very postmodern
12 February 2012 12:00 AM
We're all gonna die (eventually)!
12 February 2012 12:00 AM
Persian passage – more rollercoaster than magic carpet
12 February 2012 12:00 AM
Dan Smith's thriller is a riff on the Lord of the Flies story of an isolated group of young people devolving into a bloody and murderous chaos, and while it contains few surprises, it is interesting enough to keep you turning the pages.
12 February 2012 12:00 AM
A basement packed with dynamite
12 February 2012 12:00 AM
A romantic thriller steeped in the heady carnival atmosphere of early 20th-century Vienna and the poetry of the Great War
12 February 2012 12:00 AM
Victorian gothic, without the gymnastics
10 February 2012 12:00 AM
In the 1970s, you could hardly open a magazine or pass a billboard without seeing the advertisement for Virginia Slims cigarettes that said, "You've come a long way, baby." It usually featured a flowing-haired, liberated modern woman alongside some drudge of a generation or two earlier, pegging out laundry. The implication (as well as that smoking was good for you) was that women had revolutionised their lives in unprecedented ways over a few decades, and that a great broad path of such freedoms still lay ahead, along with some fab new haircuts.
10 February 2012 12:00 AM
In 1785, the young Norman engineer Baratte oversees the clearance of the fetid cemetery of Les Innocents in Paris and the transfer of its huddled dead to Porte d'Enfer.
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