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f r om the p u l p i t 1 Jeremy Lewis h i st or y 5 Anne Somerset

The Queen’s Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I John Cooper 6 Peter Marshall

Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England Thomas Penn 8 Sudhir Hazareesingh

Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights 1750–1790 Jonathan I Israel 10 Richard Overy

Tankograd – The Formation of a Soviet Company Town: Cheliabinsk, 1900s–1950s Lennart Samuelson 12 David Gilmour

The Amritsar Massacre: The Untold Story of One Fateful Day Nick Lloyd l i t e r a r y l i v e s 13 John Sutherland

Charles Dickens: A Life Claire Tomalin • Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist Robert Douglas-Fairhurst 15 Sam Leith

The Inner Man: The Life of J G Ballard John Baxter 16 John Stubbs

Ben Jonson: A Life Ian Donaldson 18 Claire Harman

Arthur Ransome’s Long-lost Study of Robert Louis Stevenson (Ed) Kirsty Nichol Findlay 19 Jeffrey Meyers

Yossarian Slept Here: When Joseph Heller was Dad and Life was a Catch-22 Erica Heller • Just One Catch: The Passionate Life of Joseph Heller Tracy Daugherty man & mar i on e t t e 21 John Gray

Humanity 2.0: What it Means to be Human Past, Present and Future Steve Fuller 22 Steven Connor

Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life Kenneth Gross b i o g r a p hy 23 David Cesarani

Hitler’s Hangman: The Life and Death of Reinhard Heydrich Robert Gerwarth c ontents c ontents

25 Jonathan Sumption

Edward III W Mark Ormrod 26 Helen Castor

Matilda: Queen of the Conqueror Tracy Borman 27 Frederic Raphael

Jew Süss: Life, Legend, Fiction, Film Susan Tegel 28 Robert Irwin

Adventures in the Orgasmatron: Wilhelm Reich and the Invention of Sex Christopher Turner on m i s c h i e f b e n t 30 Christopher Andrew

Greek Memories Compton Mackenzie 31 Roderick Bailey

Ian Fleming’s Commandos: The Story of 30 Assault Unit in WWII Nicholas Rankin s i ght & s o u nd 32 Tim Blanning

Verdi and/or Wagner Peter Conrad 33 Rupert Christiansen

A Singer’s Notebook Ian Bostridge 34 Gillian Tindall

Girl in a Green Gown: The History and Mystery of the Arnolfini Portrait Carola Hicks 35 Donald Sassoon

Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon Martin Kemp f or e i g n pa rts 36 John Keay

Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest Wade Davis 37 Raymond Seitz

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris David McCullough 39 Mary Kenny

Connemara: A Little Gaelic Kingdom Tim Robinson 40 Harry Mount

Vesuvius: The Most Famous Volcano in the World Gillian Darley 41 John Sweeney

Outlaws Inc. Flying with the World ’s Most Dangerous Smugglers Matt Potter g e n e r a l 42 John Montague

New Collected Poems Derek Mahon

43 Katherine Duncan-Jones

Shakespeare and Amateur Performance: A Cultural History Michael Dobson 45 Juliet Gardiner

A Force to Be Reckoned With: A History of the Women’s Institute Jane Robinson 46 Thomas Marks

Ghost Milk: Calling Time on the Grand Project Iain Sinclair 47 Valerie Grove

Litter: How Other People’s Rubbish Shapes Our Lives Theodore Dalrymple 48 Frances Wilson

Facing Beauty: Painted Women and Cosmetic Art Aileen Ribeiro 49 Daniel Snowman

Vauxhall Gardens: A History David Coke and Alan Borg f i c t i on 51 Andrew Hussey

The Map and the Territory Michel Houellebecq 52 Patricia Duncker

A Lovesong for India: Tales from East and West Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 53 Clare Clark

The Quality of Mercy Barry Unsworth 54 James Purdon

The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides 55 Philip Womack

Jamrach’s Menagerie Carol Birch 55 Joanna Kavenna

New Finnish Grammar Diego Marani 56 John de Falbe

The Foxes Come at Night Cees Nooteboom 57 Jonathan Barnes on first novels 58 Frank Brinkley

Our Lady of Alice Bhatti Mohammed Hanif 59 Emma Hogan

Half Blood Blues Esi Edugyan

49 Poem ‘Pentimenti’ by Kay Ryan 60 Crime Jessica Mann 63 Silenced Voices Lucy Popescu 50 Crossword • 62 Poetry Competition o c t o b e r 2 0 1 1 |

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