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ERIC KAUFMANN American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us Robert D Putnam & David E Campbell AATISH TASEER Undercover Muslim: A Journey into Yemen Theo Padnos DAVID GILMOUR Street Fight in Naples: A City’s Unseen History Peter Robb PATRICK MARNHAM Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa Jason K Stearns ANNA REID White Fever: A Journey to the Frozen Heart of Siberia Jacek Hugo-Bader JEREMY LEWIS Thin Paths: Journeys in and around an Italian Mountain Village Julia Blackburn

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MICHAEL COLLINS Hood Rat Gavin Knight PETER MARSHALL Evening’s Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe Craig Koslofsky STEVE FULLER The Tribal Imagination: Civilization and the Savage Mind Robin Fox J MORDAUNT CROOK The Battle of the Styles: Society, Culture and the Design of a New Foreign Office, 1855–1861 Bernard Porter TIM RICHARDSON Gardens of Earthly Delight: The History of Deer Parks John Fletcher JONATHAN MIRSKY In Defence of Dogs: Why Dogs Need Our Understanding John Bradshaw

CAROLE ANGIER Scenes from Village Life Amos Oz JOHN THIEME Last Man in Tower Aravind Adiga JONATHAN BECKMAN The Stranger’s Child Alan Hollinghurst TIM MARTIN There but for the Ali Smith OLIVIA LAING You Joanna Briscoe ANDREAS CAMPOMAR The Rest is Silence Carla Guelfenbein KEITH MILLER Embassytown China Miéville SIMON WILLIS Waterline Ross Raisin DAVID ANNAND Telescope Jonathan Buckley

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LEO MCKINSTRY’s Spitfire: Portrait of a Legend, Hurricane: Victor of the Battle of Britain and Lancaster: The Second World War’s Greatest Bomber are published by John Murray.

PATRICK PORTER i s a Senior Lecturer in Defence Studies at King’s College London. He is the author of Military Orientalism (Hurst).

SARAH BRADFORD i s cur r ent l y working on a biography of Queen Victoria. Her book on Elizabeth II is to be published by Viking in January for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

ERIC KAUFMANN’s latest book, Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?, is published by Profile Books.

AATISH TASEER i s the author of Stranger to History: A Son’s Journey through Islamic Lands. His new novel, Noon, is published by Picador.

DAVID GILMOUR’s most recent book is The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, Its Regions and Their Peoples, published by Allen Lane.

PATRICK MARNHAM i s writing a book about the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

MICHAEL COLLINS is the author of The Likes of Us: A Biography of the White Working Class, published by Granta.

PETER MARSHALL i s Professor of History at the University of Warwick.

STEVE FULLER is the Auguste Comte Professor of Social Epistemology at the University of Warwick. His next book, Humanity 2.0: What It Means to Be Human Past, Present and Future (Palgrave Macmillan), will appear in the autumn.

OLIVIA LAING is the author of To the River (Canongate).

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