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J ASON B URKE A World of Trouble: America in the Middle East Patrick Tyler J USTIN M AROZZI Stranger to History: A Son’s Journey through Islamic Lands Aatish Taseer R ICHARD D AVENPORT -H INES Florence 1900: The Quest for Arcadia Bernd Roeck B RENDA M ADDOX Dublin 1916: The Siege of the GPO Clair Wills G ILES F ITZ H ERBERT Viva South America! A Journey Through a Changing Continent Oliver Balch

D AVID W ATKINON P ALLADIO

A LLISTER H EATH Wars, Guns and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places Paul Collier I BN W ARRAQ The Crisis of Islamic CivilisationAli A Allawi H ENRIETTA G ARNETT Desperate Romantics: The Private Lives of the Pre-Raphaelites Franny Moyle J ONATHAN M IRSKY Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce Sarah Abrevaya Stein H ARRY M OUNT Classified: The Secret History of the Personal Column HGCocks J OHN K EAY For All the Tea in China: Espionage, Empire and the Secret Formula for the World’s Favourite Drink Sarah Rose D AVID P ROFUMO Shapes: Nature’s Patterns – A Tapestry in Three Parts Philip Ball

J ONATHAN B ECKMAN 2666 Roberto Bolaño A DRIAN T URPIN The Women TCBoyle T OBY L ICHTIG Journey Into Space Toby Litt G ILL H ORNBY Strangers Anita Brookner A NDREW R OBINSON The Immortals Amit Chaudhuri A NDREW B ARROW Cold Blood James Fleming A MANDA C RAIG Burnt Shadows Kamila Shamsie R ICHARD G ODWIN Ten Storey Love Song Richard Milward T HOMAS M ARKS ON F OUR F IRST N OVELS

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S USAN C ROSLAND

J OHN A DAMSON is a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge.

J ASON B URKE is a foreign correspondent for The Observer. His latest book is On the Road to Kandahar: Travels through Conflict in the Muslim World.

I BN W ARRAQ has edited several books of Koranic criticism, such as The Origins of the Koran, and What the Koran Really Says. He is the author of Why I Am Not a Muslim, and more recently, a critique of Edward Said, Defending the West.

E DWARD N ORMAN is Emeritus Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and Curate of the St James Garlickhythe Church in the City of London.

D ONALD R AYFIELD ’s new translation of Gogol’s Dead Souls, with illustrations by Chagall, has just been published by Garnett Press.

D OMINIC S ANDBROOK ’s latest book, A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties, is published by Little, Brown.

J OHN C ORNWELL is director of the Science and Human Dimension Project at Jesus College, Cambridge. His latest book is Darwin’s Angel: An Angelic Riposte to the GodDelusion.

A NDREW R OBINSON is the author of Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye and Rabindranath Tagore: The MyriadMinded Man.

D AVID W ATKIN ’s new book, The Roman Forum, will be published in April by Profile Books.

J USTIN M AROZZI ’s most recent book is The Man who Invented History: Travels with Herodotus(John Murray).

H ENRIETTA G ARNETT is writing a biographical study of the women who inspired the Pre-Raphaelites.

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