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BOOK REVIEWS

Reviews by some of our Society members. They are also published in the Sherborne Times.

All books reviewed here, together with many others, may be purchased from Winstone's Books with a 10% discount for Society members. Click here.

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Ferdinand Mount

Big Caesars and Little Caesars

Friday, 21 July 2023

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Sophy Roberts

The Lost Pianos of Siberia

Friday, 17 March 2023

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Colin Heber-Percy

Tales of a Country Parish

Monday, 12 September 2022

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Eric G. Wilson

‘Dream-Child: A Life of Charles Lamb'

Thursday, 19 May 2022

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Anthony Doerr

Cloud Cuckoo Land

Thursday, 6 January 2022

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Kirsty Wark

The House by The Loch

Friday, 18 June 2021

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Oliver Harris

A Shadow Intelligence

Friday, 18 June 2021

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Raynor Winn

The Salt Path

Monday, 17 May 2021

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Pam Ayers

Up in the Attic

Monday, 17 May 2021

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Peter Frankopan

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

Monday, 17 May 2021

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Anthony Sattin

Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World

Friday, 17 March 2023

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Amy Jeffs

Wild: Tales From Early Medieval Britain

Monday, 28 November 2022

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Roger Morgan-Grenville

Taking Stock: A Journey Among Cows

Saturday, 4 June 2022

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Adrian Tinniswood

‘Noble Ambitions'

Thursday, 19 May 2022

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Levison Wood

Arabia

Friday, 18 June 2021

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Ziauddin Yousafzai (co-author Louise Carpenter)

Let Her Fly – A Father's Journey and the Fight for Equality

Friday, 18 June 2021

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Cathy Newman

Bloody Brilliant Women – The Pioneers, Revolutionaries and Geniuses your History Teacher Forgot to Mention

Friday, 18 June 2021

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Andrew Lownie

The Mountbattens: Their Lives and Loves

Monday, 17 May 2021

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Jeanine Cummins

American Dirt

Monday, 17 May 2021

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J.D. Vance

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

Monday, 17 May 2021

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John Gimlette

The Gardens of Mars: Madagascar, an Island Story

Friday, 17 March 2023

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Max Hastings

Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

Monday, 17 October 2022

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Natasha Solomons

‘I, Mona Lisa'

Thursday, 19 May 2022

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John le Carre

‘Silverview'

Tuesday, 17 May 2022

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Henry Hemming

Our Man in New York

Friday, 18 June 2021

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Libby Page

The Lido

Friday, 18 June 2021

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Lindsay Hilsum

IN EXTREMIS, The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin

Friday, 18 June 2021

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Delia Owens

Where the Crawdads Sing

Monday, 17 May 2021

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Jan Morris

Thinking Again

Monday, 17 May 2021

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