First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by a feminist closely related to Frankenstein: "Abodes of horror have frequently been described...
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Microscopic manoeuvres
The Birth of the Cell - Joseph Leidy
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A costly settling of accounts
The Treaty of Versailles
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An antique chronology
The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 13
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India's epic, full and fresh
A History of India
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Kings who cooled the flames of Africa
When the Sleeping Grass Awakens
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Life of republic marked by patriot
Sean Lemass
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Mapping out the middle
The Mid-Victorian Generation, 1846-86
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Recalling of things French
Realms of Memory
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Entwined roots in the past
The Hammonds
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History lacking visible supports
The Making of Ireland
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Marxism, '68, and all that jazz
Uncommon People
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Shrovetide football drama
The Stage as Mirror
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Yale, Harvard, Bloomsbury
Historian David Cannadine says British higher education is less confident, creative and imaginative than its American counterpart, but he believes he has a blueprint for its recovery It is true to...