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• The Echo Maker by Richard Powers

  Philip Womack is unilluminated by Richard Powers

• Ghost Hunters by Deborah Blum

  Michael Binyon visits the Victorian spritualists with Deborah Blum

• Natural truth

  Marybeth Hamilton celebrates the passion of a record collector

• Love, life, Goethe

  The great German writer was that wonderful contradiction, a romantic rationalist, says John Armstrong

• Piss, shit and blood

  In laying bare the entrails of 18th-century society, claims Martin Rowson, Hogarth was the first modern journalist

• Diary: Comic timing

  Shappi Khorsandi reflects on the glamorous life of an atheist stand-up

• Murder City: The Bloody History of Chicago in the Twenties by Michael Lesy

  Michael Binyon is not blown away by the Windy City

• Terra Nullius: A Journey Through No One's Land by Sven Lundqvist

  Daniel Miller is battered and bruised by Sven Lundqvist

• The Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel's Astronomical Ambitions by Claire Brock

  Brenda Maddox is swept off her feet by an astronomical biography

• The Blackest Bird: A Novel of History and Murder by Joel Rose

  Martina Evans is haunted by the ghost of Poe