Book reviews
This page contains a selection of book reviews written by Bristol Festival of Ideas fans. Please click on the book covers below to read reviews about each book listed.
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A Face to the World by Laura Cumming (HarperPress) Click here to read reviews |
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When China Rules the World by Martin Jacques (Allen Lane) Click here to read reviews |
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The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist (Yale University Press) Click here to read reviews |
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Dead Aid by Dambisa Moyo (Penguin) Click here to read reviews |
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The Idea of Justice by Amartya Sen (Allen Lane) Click here to read reviews |
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The Spirit Level by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett (Penguin) Click here to read reviews |
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Flat Earth News by Nick Davies (Vintage Books) |
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The Terror Dream by Susan Faludi (Atlantic Books) |
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McMafia by Misha Glenny (Vintage Books) |
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The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes (HarperPress) |
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What Does China Think? by Mark Leonard (Fourth Estate) |
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A Book of Silence by Sara Maitland (Granta Books) |
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The Case for God by Karen Armstrong (The Bodley Head Ltd.) |
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The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood (Bloomsbury) |
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Darwin: For the Love of Science and A Voyage Around Darwin (Bristol Cultural Development Partnership) |
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The Vanishing Face of Gaia by James Lovelock (Allen Lane) |
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