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Tudors: The History of England of Henry VIII to Elizabeth I
By Peter Ackroyd
’Why people choose to hang off rock faces hundreds of feet above the ground’
A review of ’The Best of Mountain and Wilderness Writing’
Sixty essays to help people ’recalibrate their lives and connect with the natural world’
A book review of ’The Sweetness of a Simple Life’
Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide
’The first full account’ of America’s role in the 1971 atrocities in Bangladesh
’Austria declared war on us. Bastards.’
A review of ’The Diary of Olga Romanov: Royal Witness to the Russian Revolution’
Who is Rob Delaney?
... and why do people think he’s the funniest person on Twitter?
Maclean’s Top 20 Books Of 2013
The fiction and non-fiction titles that we loved this year
Fearless eaters, Apple vs. Google, and more weekend reading
Plus: inside Rupert Murdoch’s empire and how the health care system failed one writer’s parents