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Marjorie Bowen Black Magic 368pp. Vintage. Paperback, £9.99. Marjorie Bowen Julia Roseingrave 256pp. British Library. Paperback, £9.99. Born in 1885, Marjorie Bowen wrote her first novel, The Viper of

Such was George III’s passion for astronomy that he had an observatory built to observe the transit of Venus. Although his interest remains unrivalled, scientific curiosity gripped the Royal Family for centuries, as Matthew Dennison reveals

John P. Murphy New Deal Art 336pp. Thames and Hudson. Paperback, £19.99. Seymour Fogel’s “Wealth of the Nation”, installed in 1942 in a federal building in Washington DC, depicts a group of workers en

Adrian Tchaikovsky returns to the darkly exuberant world of The Tyrant Philosophers

In Caravaggio’s “St Matthew and the Angel” (1602), the Bible seems to arrive as a shock to those who wrote it. Matthew, bare-armed and dirty-toed, is a fisherman stranded on dry land. Everything about