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24 Anthony Daniels

The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age Nathan Wolfe h i st or y 25 Donald Rayfield

Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe Norman Davies 26 Blair Worden

A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza’s Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age Steven Nadler 28 Mark G Spencer

Independence: The Struggle to Set America Free John Ferling 29 Nigel Jones on five books about the First World War men o f l e t t e r s 31 John Montague

The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Volume II: 1941–1956 (Edd) George Craig, Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Dan Gunn & Lois More Overbeck 33 Roger Kimball

P G Wodehouse: A Life in Letters (Ed) Sophie Ratcliffe 36 Caroline Moorehead

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 1: 1907–1922 (Edd) Sandra Spanier & Robert W Trogdon men o f war 37 Andrew Roberts

Napoleon Alan Forrest • Napoleon and the Rebel: A Story of Brotherhood, Passion, and Power Marcello Simonetta & Noga Arikha 38 James Holland

Free France’s Lion: The Life of Philippe Leclerc, de Gaulle’s Greatest General William Mortimer Moore 40 Alex Danchev

The Artist and the Warrior: Military History through the Eyes of the Masters Theodore K Rabb g e n e r a l 41 Jerry Brotton

Florence and Baghdad: Renaissance Art and Arab Science Hans Belting 42 Adrian Tinniswood

The Shakespeare Thefts: In Search of the First Folios Eric Rasmussen

43 Daniel Snowman

Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity: Art, Opera, Fiction, and the Proclamation of Modernity Simon Goldhill 44 Christopher Hart

You Talkin’ to Me? Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama Sam Leith 45 Manjit Kumar

The Reason Why: The Miracle of Life on Earth John Gribbin 46 Jonathan Mirsky on five books about Afghanistan 49 Hazhir Teimourian

The Pigeon Wars of Damascus Marius Kociejowski 50 Raleigh Trevelyan

The Levelling Sea: The Story of a Cornish Haven in the Age of Sail Philip Marsden 51 John Sweeney

Private Eye, the First Fifty Years: An A–Z Adam Macqueen f i c t i on 52 Toby Lichtig

1Q84 Haruki Murakami 53 David Annand

The Tragedy of Arthur Arthur Phillips 54 James Purdon

The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories Don DeLillo 54 Miranda France

Good Offices Evelio Rosero 55 Kate Saunders

How It All Began Penelope Lively 56 Ivan Juritz

The Cold Eye of Heaven Christine Dwyer Hickey 57 John Dugdale

The Devil All the Time Donald Ray Pollock • The Outlaw Album Daniel Woodrell 58 Daniel Metcalfe

The Message Tariq Goddard

59 Lucy Popescu Silenced Voices 60 Jessica Mann Crime 32 Crossword 62 Poetry Competition n o v e m b e r 2 0 1 1 | Literary Review 3