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Old soldiers' friend

Jenny Hobbs paints a sympathetic portrait of the often ignored men who fought the battles that bought us our freedom.

Fitting location for crime

Three new crime novels explore unusual locations and cultural spaces.

Stories of our wars and peace

A bonding of fiction and history creates a tangible reminder of the fraught decade before Mandela's release.

Nanotech among the minarets

Imagery of microcosm and macrocosm haunts Ian McDonald's new novel, The Dervish House, set in Istanbul in 2027.

How to do things with words

Gwen Ansell hails China Mieville's novel on the seductive allure of alien language, Embassytown, and other new science fiction.

Rich pickings in Uganda

Pitiless politics ensures a steady supply for local authors.

In search of lost ground

The short review of this book is simply this: it's remarkable, and you should not only read it but buy a copy as you will want to look into it again.

We can be moral without God

Science, which usually claims to be morally neutral, could help to compute our moral instincts