Book review: Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense Of The Twentieth Century

HIS entertaining novels and distinctly non-standard biographies have long marked John Higgs out as an ambitious writer, but even by his standards, this is an audacious project.

Sat, 19 Sep, 2015 - 01:00

Review: Alex Sarll

John Higgs

Orion, €29.50; ebook, €18.99

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