Magpies, Squirrels & Thieves: How the Victorians Collected the World
by Jacqueline Yallop
Atlantic Books, £25
arts
Big bags and itchy fingers of colonial collectors in the High Victorian Age
By Robert Giddings /Saturday, October 29th, 2011Hank’s for the memory
By Joe Cushnan /Friday, October 28th, 2011The Thing About Hank
Radio 4
Tonight
Radio 4
Billions of blue blistering barnacles
By Tribune Web Editor /Friday, October 28th, 2011 The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
Director: Steven Spielberg
Real Steel
Director: Shawn Levy
Postcards from the metafictional edge
By Lucy Popescu /Friday, October 28th, 2011Funeral for a Dog
by Thomas Pletzinger
WW Norton & Co, £9.99
Post-feminist performance to tickle your funny bone
By Aleks Sierz /Friday, October 28th, 2011Jumpy
The Royal Court, London
Hawaii Five-O – surfers want to book ’em, Danno
By Glyn Ford /Sunday, October 23rd, 2011Waves of Resistance: Surfing and History
in Twentieth Century Hawaii
by Isaiah Helekunihi Walker
University of Hawaii Press, £15.42
How Hitler’s Pope, the Red Cross and the CIA helped Nazis escape justice
By David Harounoff /Sunday, October 23rd, 2011Nazis on the Run: How Hitler’s Henchmen Fled Justice by Gerald Steinacher
Oxford University Press, £20
Allen back on form with this Paris tango
By Patrick Mulcahy /Saturday, October 22nd, 2011Midnight in Paris
Director: Woody Allen
One Day
Director: Lone Scherfig
Stiff upper lips in an earnest morality play
By Aleks Sierz /Saturday, October 22nd, 2011The River Line
Jermyn Street Theatre, London
From Elena to the wonderful Wanda
By Neil Young /Sunday, October 16th, 2011London Film Festival 2011