CATHERINE STEEL relishes a compelling novel about Augustus’s right hand man, but misses the politics, the cultural shifts, and more detail about his restoration of Rome
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The Empire and Ukraine by Andrew Murray (Manifesto Press, £11.95)
TONY BURKE speaks to JOEL McIVER, co-author of the biography of bluesman John Mayall
A misfit couple unhappily ever after, a dead man walking, dodgy journos, and trench art trucking
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PAUL DONOVAN applauds an intriguing multi-layered depiction, dominated by a stunning impersonation of Marilyn herself
EWAN CAMERON marvels at the impossible ambition, realised with dreamlike finesse of translating Italo Calvino to the stage
Recent worsening relations between Moscow and Kiev, in the shape of efforts to isolate Crimea and a subsequent termination of Russian gas supplies to its neighbour, underline the dangers to the shaky ceasefire in eastern Ukraine.
Western media asserts that blame for friction between the two former Soviet republics lies exclusively with Moscow.
Consensus has it that Russian President Vladimir Putin is intent on prising away the Donetsk and Lugansk provinces from Ukraine towards incorporation in Russia, as Crimea was.
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