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Book review: Walden of Bermondsey

Peter Murphy
Foreword by His Honour Judge Nicholas Hilliard QC, The Recorder of London
Publisher: No Exit Press, November 2017
Format: Paperback
Extent: 416pp
ISBN: 9780857301222
 

23 January 2018
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Book review: ‘Madam, Where Are Your Mangoes?’ An Episodic Memoir

Sir Desmond de Silva
Publisher: Quartet Books (September 2017)
ISBN-13: 978-0704374423
 

19 December 2017
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Film review: Paddington 2: life in the hostile environment

Immigration barrister Colin Yeo reviews Paddington 2  

Warning: contains spoilers – and information about the plot too 

19 December 2017 / Colin Yeo
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Book review: In Search of Nice Americans: off-grid, on the road and state to state in Trump’s America

Geoff Steward
Publisher: Biteback Publishing (August 2017)
​ISBN: 978-1785902635
 

17 December 2017
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Book review: The Apocalypse Fire (Ava Curzon Series)

Dominic Selwood (Corax, October 2016)
Paperback 384pp ISBN 978-0992633271
 
 

This is the second in a trilogy of well-researched, historical, religious thrillers featuring heroine Dr Ava Curzon, ex-secret service turned museum curator, a sort of cross between Harry Palmer and Lara Croft 

25 July 2017
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Theatre Review: My Country Right or Wrong by Nigel Pascoe QC

A dramatic examination of how the UK went to war with Iraq, and its aftermath, including the tragic death of Dr David Kelly
​Parliament Chamber, Inner Temple, 24 March 2017 
 

Filing into a quickly packed Parliament Chamber of the Inner Temple on 24 March, I didn’t know what to expect.  

25 July 2017
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Book review: Criminal, The Truth About Why People Do Bad Things

Tom Gash (Penguin, March 2017)
​Paperback 352pp ISBN 978-0241960431
 
 

A key insight into this book is that the author is a former management consultant, who describes himself as challenging received wisdom about crime and punishment, and being sceptical of ‘big ideas’.  

25 July 2017
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Summer wine 2017

Counsel’s wine critics Seán Jones QC and Dominic Regan with their pick of the summer season 

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Mr Justice McCardie (1869-1933) – Rebel, Reformer, and Rogue Judge

Antony Lentin 

Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2016) 

Hardback 205pp 978-1-4438-9780-8 

27 June 2017 / Nigel Pascoe KC
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CONSENT

by Nina Raine at the National Theatre 

Co-production with Out of Joint (28 March to 17 May 2017) 

27 June 2017 / David Wurtzel
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