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JONATHAN FENBY The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kaishek and the Birth of Modern China Hannah Pakula LESLIE MITCHELL Pitt the Elder: Man of War Edward Pearce RODERICK BAILEY The Shooting Star: Denis Rake, MC, A Clandestine Hero of the Second World War Geoffrey Elliott ALLAN MASSIE Must You Go? Antonia Fraser

ALLISTER HEATH Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy Joseph Stiglitz Whoops! Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay John Lanchester LINDY WOODHEAD Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Business Geoffrey Jones J OHN SWEENEY The Candy Machine: How Cocaine Took Over the World Tom Feiling ARCHIE BLAND Fun Inc: Why Games are the 21st Century’s Most Serious Business Tom Chatfield

MICHAEL BURLEIGH Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda John Mueller FREDERIC RAPHAEL Trials of the Diaspora: A History of AntiSemitism in England Anthony Julius COLIN TUDGE Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human Richard Wrangham SIMON HEFFER Ultimate Adventures with Britannia: Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain (Ed) Wm Roger Louis FRANCES WILSON Why Women Have Sex Cindy Meston & David Buss NIGEL JONES The National Gallery: A Short History Charles Saumarez Smith

ANNE CHISHOLM The Unspoken Truth Angelica Garnett CRESSIDA CONNOLLY Apparition & Late Fictions Thomas Lynch DJTAYLOR The Pregnant Widow Martin Amis SAM LEITH The Unnamed Joshua Ferris KATE SAUNDERS Isa & May Margaret Forster TOBY LICHTIG Generosity Richard Powers MARCUS SEDGWICK The Liberators Philip Womack RACHEL HORE The Long Song Andrea Levy GILLIAN TINDALL To Bed With Grand Music Marghanita Laski GILL HORNBY The Other Family Joanna Trollope

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MICHAEL BURLEIGH’s Blood & Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism is available in paperback from HarperPerennial.

LESLIE MITCHELL is Emeritus Fellow of University College, Oxford. His publications include lives of BulwerLytton and Maurice Bowra, and a study of the Whig Party.

JONATHAN KEATES’s most recent book, The Siege of Venice, is published by Chatto & Windus.

ALASTAIR NIVEN is Principal of Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, and the former Director of Literature at the British Council and at Arts Council England.

CLAIRE HARMAN’s most recent book is Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World (Canongate).

PATRICIA DUNCKER’s novel The Strange Case of the Composer and His Judge will be published by Bloomsbury in March.

ALLISTER HEATH is Editor of City AM.

COLIN TUDGE’s latest book, Consider the Birds, is available from Penguin.

ROBERT IRWIN’s latest book is For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

RODERICK BAILEY is the author of The Wildest Province: SOE in the Land of the Eagle (Jonathan Cape) and is currently working on the official history of SOE operations against Fascist Italy.

MARCUS SEDGWICK’s latest novel is Revolver. He is also the author of The Raven Mysteries series for younger readers, and is currently Author in Residence at Bath Spa University.

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