Books
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The Booker's Big Bang
The Booker Prize, which will be awarded on 14 October, is 40 years old, but it wasn't always the 600lb gorilla of literary prizes
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Stories from the front line
We Saw Spain Die: Foreign Correspondents in the Spanish Civil War
Paul Preston Constable & Robinson, 436pp, £20
For love and language
The First Person and Other Stories
Ali Smith Hamish Hamilton, 212pp, £16.99
Noxious vapours
Good wishes to those troubled bankers, the perils of sniffing damp repelling liquid and how to touch the arm of strangers and not quite get away with it
Never criticise the family
Zionism is one of the most contentious ideas, freighted with emotion by both partisans and detractors. Now some Jews are speaking out, breaking a long self-censorship
Scents and sensibility
Perfumes: the Guide
Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez
Profile Books, 384pp, £20
Mother of invention
Africa: Altered States, Ordinary Miracles
Richard Dowden
Portobello Books, 576pp, £25
Christian soldier
Florence Nightingale: the Woman and Her Legend
Mark Bostridge
Viking, 646pp, £25
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Unfinished project
Tony's Ten Years: Memories of the Blair Administration
Adam Boulton Simon & Schuster, 384pp, £17.99
