Books: Christmas picks

The 'architectural' book that made the biggest splash this year was Austerlitz. Being a novel, its main claim to the title was the profession of the protagonist Jacques Austerlitz – architectural historian. But this is the one that the the broadsheets covered and that distant relatives will quiz you on ...

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