MAYER WAKEFIELD applauds Rosamund Pike’s punchy and tragic portrayal of a multi-tasking mother and high court judge
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The facts and figures that back the Brexit case
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PAUL DONOVAN relishes the spectacle of a 1950s detective in pursuit of a 500-year-old murder mystery
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
Brexit: The Road to Freedom
by Will Podmore
(i2i Publishing, £9.95)
EXHAUSTIVELY researched, packed with statistics and chock-full of survey results and factual nuggets, Will Podmore’s new consideration of all things Brexit is a boon for any Leaver seeking substance to back up their case.
Written from a left perspective but refreshingly free of party politics or point-scoring, it progresses painstakingly through the gamut of Remainer arguments, comprehensively demolishing each one in turn.
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