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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Escape From Earth: A Secret History of the Space Rocket by Fraser MacDonald
Engrossing history of the US space programme's radical pioneers
Space pioneer: Frank Malina with a WAC Corporal rocket
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
WITH the 50th anniversary of the lunar landings being currently marked, the rocket is capturing the imagination once again.
But, as Fraser MacDonald’s book reveals, the rocket that propelled the Apollo mission to the moon had its precursors.
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