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December round-up Although he’s been writing and performing for many years, Donald WG Lindsay might come across as a bold new Scottish talent on Two Boats Under the Moon, his excellent two-disc debut
Our books editor Zoe West’s favourite picks for the month
Pulse Cynan Jones (Granta, £14.99) Saints Tim MacGabhann ...
All serious scholarship on ancient Sparta has to be conducted within the penumbra of the ‘mirage Spartiate’, a French term coined in 1933 to describe the problem posed by idealised accounts of Sparta.
Middleland: Dispatches from the Borders Rory Stewart (Jonathan ...
Spooky tales that resurrect the mythological past