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f r om the p u l p i t 1 Frances Wilson f i r e b r a nd s 5 Jerry Brotton

Savonarola: The Rise and Fall of a Renaissance Prophet Donald Weinstein • Machiavelli: A Life Beyond Ideology Paul Oppenheimer 7 Paul Johnson

Reagan &Thatcher: The Difficult Relationship Richard Aldous 8 Damian Thompson

The Red Dean of Canterbury: The Public and Private Faces of Hewlett Johnson John Butler men o f l e t t e r s 9 Patrick Wilcken

Saussure John E Joseph 11 Cather ine Peters

Wilkie Collins Peter Ackroyd 12 Matthew Adams

The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin (Ed) Archie Burnett h i st or y 14 Adrian Tinniswood

God ’s Instruments: Political Conduct in the England of Oliver Cromwell Blair Worden 15 Mic hael Jacobs

The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain Paul Preston 16 N orma Clarke

The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution Faramerz Dabhoiwala 17 T imothy Brook

Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China’s First Great Victory over the West Tonio Andrade 19 Andr ew Lambert

Blue-Water Empire: The British in the Mediterranean since 1800 Robert Holland 20 F elipe Fernández-Armesto

The Great Divide: History and Human Nature in the Old World and the New Peter Watson 22 Mic hael Burleigh

George F Kennan: An American Life John Lewis Gaddis 23 Ric hard Overy

Blitz Kids: The Children’s War against Hitler Sean Longden 24 N ick Rankin

Target Tirpitz: X-Craft, Agents and Dambusters Patrick Bishop c o n t e n t s i n t e r v i e w 26 Eric Ormsby meets Adonis f or e i g n pa rts 28 Jonathan Mirsky

Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West Blaine Harden 29 Richard Cockett

Apocalyptic Realm: Jihadists in South Asia Dilip Hiro 30 Dominic Sandbrook

Enemies: A History of the FBI Tim Weiner m i nd mat t e r s 32 John Gray

The Freud Files: An Inquiry into the History of Psychoanalysis Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen & Sonu Shamdasani 33 Steve Fuller

Memory: Fragments of a Modern History Alison Winter 35 Iain McGilchrist

What is Madness? Darian Leader 37 Michael Eisen

The Locked Ward: Memoirs of a Psychiatric Orderly Dennis O’Donnell f i s hy b u s i n e s s 38 David Profumo

Demon Fish: Travels through the Hidden World of Sharks Juliet Eilperin 39 Tom Fort

Moonlighting: Tales and Misadventures of a Working Life with Eels Michael Brown g e n e r a l 40 Sadakat Kadri

Justice and the Enemy: Nuremberg, 9/11, and the Trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed William Shawcross 41 Douglas Murray

Of the People, By the People: A New History of Democracy Roger Osborne 42 Ross Anderson

Worm: The First Digital World War Mark Bowden 43 Manjit Kumar

Higgs Force: The Symmetry-Breaking Force that Makes the World an Interesting Place Nicholas Mee

44 Lucy Lethbridge

Mondrian in London: How British Art Nearly Became Modern Charles Darwent 45 Frank McLynn

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanche Tribe S C Gwynne 47 Joan Smith

Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation Rachel Cusk 48 Amol Rajan

Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman f i c t i on 50 Donald Rayfield

The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol 51 Adrian Turpin

The Missing Shade of Blue: A Philosophical Adventure Jennie Erdal 53 Joanna Kavenna

An Honourable Man Gillian Slovo 53 Tom Fleming

Capital John Lanchester 54 Sam Kitchener

The Street Sweeper Elliot Perlman 55 Christena Appleyard

The Soldier’s Wife Joanna Trollope 55 Elspeth Barker

The Knife Drawer Padrika Tarrant 56 Hannah Rosefield

The Uninvited Guests Sadie Jones 57 Jake Kerridge on four debut short story collections 58 Kate Saunders

Various Pets Alive and Dead Marina Lewycka 58 Frank Brinkley

In the Orchard, the Swallows Peter Hobbs 59 Sammy Jay

Swimming Home Deborah Levy

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