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f r om the p u l p i t 1 Allan Massie the human fa c t or 5 John Gray

The Social Conquest of Earth Edward O Wilson 6 Adam Zeman

Connectome: How the Brain’s Wiring Makes Us Who We Are Sebastian Seung 8 Colin Tudge

Darwin’s Ghosts: In Search of the First Evolutionists Rebecca Stott 9 Patrick Wilcken

Language: The Cultural Tool Daniel L Everett b i o g r a p hy 11 Colin Burrow

Edmund Spenser: A Life Andrew Hadfield 13 Paul Johnson

Raphael: A Passionate Life Antonio Forcellino 14 Andrew Hussey

The Boxer and the Goalkeeper: Sartre Vs Camus Andy Martin 15 Jonathan Keates

Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune: Serving the Emperor, 1788–1791 Christoph Wolff 16 Matthew Parker

Sugar in the Blood: A Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire Andrea Stuart 17 Anne Sebba

The Baroness: The Search for Nica, the Rebellious Rothschild Hannah Rothschild h i st or y 18 Norman Stone

The Second World War Antony Beevor 19 Richard Overy

The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Hitler, Hess, and the Analysts Daniel Pick 21 Catherine Peters

Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady Kate Summerscale 22 Simon J V Malloch

Rome: An Empire’s Story Greg Woolf c o n t e n t s f or e i g n pa rts 23 Christopher Andrew

Deception: Spies, Lies and How Russia Dupes the West Edward Lucas 24 John Sweeney

Burying the Typewriter: Childhood Under the Eye of the Secret Police Carmen Bugan 25 Matthew Green

The Night Wanderers: Uganda’s Children and the Lord ’s Resistance Army Wojciech Jagielski hot t o p i c s 27 James Le Fanu

Pharmageddon David Healy 28 Charles Clover

Ocean of Life Callum Roberts • The World ’s Beaches: A Global Guide to the Science of the Shoreline Orrin H Pilkey, William J Neal, Joseph T Kelley and J Andrew G Cooper 29 Adrian Weale

Useful Enemies: When Waging Wars Is More Important Than Winning Them David Keen 30 Malise Ruthven

Islamism and Islam Bassam Tibi 32 Christopher Caldwell

What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets Michael J Sandel 33 Geordie Kidston

Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade Gabrielle Hecht l i e o f the l a nd 34 Andrew Greig

The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot Robert Macfarlane 35 Tim Richardson

How England Made the English: From Hedgerows to Heathrow Harry Mount 36 Frances Spalding

Three Houses, Many Lives Gillian Tindall p o e t r y 38 Oliver Dennis

Three new collections 39 Jonathan Mirsky meets Yang Lian g e n e r a l 40 John Sutherland

How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain Leah Price 42 David Bodanis

The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation Jon Gertner 43 Stephen Amidon

The Man Within My Head: Graham Greene, My Father and Me Pico Iyer 44 Patricia Fara

Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens Andrea Wulf 45 Adam Mars-Jones

The Anatomy of Harpo Marx Wayne Koestenbaum 46 David Collard

Living Life the Essex Way: TOWIE & Me Sam Faiers 48 Robert Chesshyre

Cricket at the Crossroads: Class, Colour and Controversy from 1967 to 1977 Guy Fraser-Sampson 49 Philip Womack

Children’s books f i c t i on 50 Jonathan Miles Canada Richard Ford 51 Jonathan Beckman Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel 52 Paul Bailey The Dream of the Celt Mario Vargas Llosa 53 Hannah Rosefield Stone Arabia Dana Spiotta 54 James Purdon Pure Timothy Mo 55 James Kidd The Lower River Paul Theroux 56 Toby Lichtig The Server Tim Parks 57 Rowland Manthorpe The Deadman’s Pedal Alan Warner

60 Jessica Mann Crime 63 Lucy Popescu Silenced Voices 62 Poetry Competition 38 LR Bookshop 10 Crossword 64 LR Classifieds j u n e 2 0 1 2 | Literary Review 3