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On this day, one hundred and fifty years ago, the publishing house of John Murray brought out a condensed and abridged treatise on The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, in a first printing of 1,250 copies.
If we scuttle away from Afghanistan we will inflict horror on its people. The wrong people will win: in three years they might not There is a low shelf deep in the stacks of the London Library that holds the sad story of this...
Was it Thomas Cromwell's machinations, a frustrated MP's diaries, or a novelist's treatment of his father's suicide? We asked a few people… Peter Carey – novelist Kamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows (Bloomsbury) has huge ambition...
According to a recent online report from Wired Science, “On one of the Galápagos islands whose finches shaped the theories of a young Charles Darwin, biologists have witnessed that elusive moment when a single species splits in...
Desperate times equal desperate measures, says, Captain John Murray of The Salvation Army as reports of a "Salvation Army Santa", an unauthorized individual going door-to-door trying to collect donations in North York, Ontario...
Residents of North York and Mississauga are being warned there's a Santa out there being more naughty than nice. The Salvation Army issued a warning Thursday to beware of a bogus Santa who's going door-to-door collecting money....
Strictly for readers of a robust disposition, here are some of the passages highlighted for particular attention by the judges of the Literary Review's 2009 bad sex in fiction prize The Humbling by Philip Roth (Jonathan Cape,...
By John Murray Brown in Dublin and Ben Hall in Paris Ireland has called on Fifa, world football’s governing body, to replay Wednesday’s World Cup qualifying match against France, after a handball by French player Thierry Henry...
By John Murray Brown in Dublin Ireland’s reputation for industrial harmony faces its biggest test in more than 20 years this week as government and trade unions struggle to agree a new centralised pay deal. Teachers, nurses,...
The observations of an English socialite James Lees-Milne: The Life. By Michael Bloch. John Murray; 400 pages; GBP25. Buy from Amazon.co.uk JAMES LEES-MILNE (1908-97) notched up two big achievements. First, he was a seminal...
