From the May 2021 Issue Mr & Mrs Toad Revisited Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me: Her Life and Long Loves By John Sutherland LR
From the September 2016 Issue Scenting an Elephant Orwell’s Nose: A Pathological Biography By John Sutherland LR
From the February 2014 Issue An Elephant Never Forgotten Jumbo: The Unauthorised Biography of a Victorian Sensation By John Sutherland
From the July 2012 Issue Amuthement Arcade The Dickens Dictionary: An A–Z of England’s Greatest Novelist By John Sutherland Charles Dickens and ‘Boz’: The Birth of the Industrial-Age Author By Robert L Patten Charles Dickens’s Networks: Public Transport and the Novel By Jonathan H Grossman LR
From the July 2012 Issue In Pursuit of His Talent Stephen Spender: New Selected Journals 1939–1995 By Lara Feigel & John Sutherland (ed) LR
From the December 2011 Issue Literary Taxonomania Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives By John Sutherland LR
From the October 2008 Issue Biographia Literaria Magic Moments: Life-Changing Encounters with Books, Films, Music… By John Sutherland LR
From the June 2004 Issue The Clownish Poet Stephen Spender: The Authorized Biography By John Sutherland LR
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