Editors Gail Pirkis and Hazel Wood Marketing and publicity Stephanie Allen and Jennie Paterson

Subscriptions Alarys Gibson and Richard Conyngham

Cover illustration: Alice Tait, ‘Gloucester Road in the snow’

Alice Tait graduated from Bath Spa University in 2002 and has been working as an illustrator ever since. Her clients have included, among others, The Times, Vogue and Waitrose. She has also recently launched her own online print shop, www.alicetaitshop.com.

Design by Octavius Murray

Layout by Andrew Evans

Colophon and tailpiece by David Eccles

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From the Editors

At Home with the Pewters • antony wood

Dear Dodie • valerie grove

The Man Who Climbed the Matterhorn • simon brett

Vanity Fear • ysenda maxtone graham

Sky Writing • richard knott

Some Kind of Edwardian Sunlight • sue gee

Diamond Bombs • derek parker

The Library in Knightsbridge • andrew brownlie

‘Humbly report, sir’ • charles elliott

Laura, Louisa and Me • daisy hay

‘By God, I’m going to spin’ • paul routledge

Extra-ordinary Cricketers . . . • andrew hall

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