Pulpit

Diana Athill

Too Kind?

LR

History

Michael Burleigh

End Game

Armageddon: The Battle For Germany 1944-45

By Max Hastings

LR

Andrew Roberts

How to Win Votes and Influence People

The Whig Revival 1808-1830

By William Hey

LR

Richard Overy

Violent Logic

Nazism and War

By Richard Bessel

LR

C A R Hills

The Whole World for Their Grave

A History of Portuguese Overseas Expansion 1400-1668

By Malyn Newitt

LR

Hazhir Teimourian

Mummies In The Closet

The Court of the Caliphs: The Rise and Fall of Islam's Greatest Dynasty

By Hugh Kennedy

LR

Graham Stewart

Louis Licked

Blenheim: Battle for Europe

By Charles Spencer

LR

Nigel Jones

Watching the War Go By

Irene and Alan Taylor,
James Owen and Guy Walters,
Richard J Aldrich,
Max Arthur,
Juliet Gardiner,
Barry Turner

Literary Lives

Alan Massie

The Retiring Novelist

Thomas Hardy: A Biography Revisited

By Michal Millgate

LR

Caroline Moorehead

Waiting For Glory

Olivia Manning: A life

By Neville and Caroline Moorehead

LR

Frances Spalding

She Wrote as if She Were Hemming a Skirt

George Sand

By Elizabeth Harlan

LR

Jessica Mann

A Fierce Fantasist

Patrick O'Brian: The Making of the Novelist

By Nikolai Tolstoy

The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey

By Patrick O'Brian

LR

Art & Architecture

Peyton Skipwith

Le Génie du Désordre

By Walter Sickert: A life

LR

John McEwan

A Painter Writes

The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art

By Mark Rothko

LR

William Packer

Kissing Rodin

Gwen John: Letters and Notebooks

By Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan (ed)

LR

Sebastian Shakespeare

Paint Run Amok

Guernica: The Biography of a Twentieth-Century Icon

By Gijs van Hensbergen

LR

Paul Johnson

What To See In Nuuk

The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture

By Phaidon(ed)

LR

Music

Simon Heffer

Neitzche Fetched His Silk Panties

Wagner: The Last of the Titans

By Joachim Köhler

LR

Patrick O'Connor

A Swift, Vivid Genius

Florence Mills: Harlem Jazz Queen

By Bill Egan

LR

Mick Brown

Being Bob

Chronicles: Volume One

By Bob Dylan

Biography

A C Grayling

Herbert’s Law

A Life of H L A Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream

By Nicola Lacey

LR

Brenda Maddox

The Columbus of Politics

Machiavelli: A Man Misunderstood

By Michael White

LR

Alexander Waugh

How Weird was Wallis?

Mrs Simpson: Secret Lives of the Duchess of Windsor

By Charles Higham

LR

Francis King

A Guilesome Girl

Mistress of the Elgin Marbles: A Biography of Mary Nisbet, Countess of Elgin

By Susan Nagel

LR

Catherine Peters

Guggum The Beautiful

Lizzie Siddal: The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel

By Lucinda Hawkley

LR

Foreign Parts

Jonathan Mirsky

A Subversive Infusion

Secret Histories: Finding George Orwell in a Burmese Teashop

By Emma Larkin

LR

Donald Rayfield

The Troubled Bear

Putin's Russia

By Anna Politikovskaya

LR

J W M Thompson

Across-The-Pond Life

Letters from America: 1946-2004

By Alistair Cooke

LR

Frank Fairfield

Street History

Paris: Biography of a City

By Colin Jones

The White Cities: Report From France 1925-39

By Joseph Roth

LR

Notebooks & Memoirs

Adam Sisman

A Mind Ablaze

The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

By Kathleen Coburn, Merton Christensen, Antony John Harding (edd)

Coleridge's Notebooks: A Selection

By Seamus Perry (ed)

LR

Victoria Glendinning

Some Cuckoo, Some Nests!

Half an Arch: A Memoir

By Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy

LR

Andrew Lycett

Gertrude Stein’s Bra

Tolkien's Gown & Other Stories of Great Authors and Rare Books

By Rick Gekoski

LR

Bad Sex

Alan Rafferty

Bad Sex Report 2004

General

Peter Washington

Writer & Co

The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period

By William St Clair

LR

Richard Grey

Forbidden Journeys

The Cruise of the Vanadis

By Edith Wharton

LR

Nick Smith

A Crack Shot

Wilfred Thesiger: A Life in Pictures

By Alexander Maitland

LR

David Profumo

Buggering the Bittern

A Bird in the Bush: A Social History of Birdwatching

By Stephen Moss

The Strange Death of British Birdsong

By Michael Waterhouse

How To Be A Bad Birdwatcher

By Simon Barnes

LR

Peter Oborne

Not Lonely Cattle Sheds

A Year at the Races

By Jane Smiley

The British Stable

By Giles Worsley

LR

Christopher Ondaatje

The Lure of the Peppercorn

Spice: The History of Temptation

By Jack Turner

LR

Tom Wolfe

John Dugdale

Emma Bovery as a Dixie Chick

I Am Charlotte Simmons

By Tom Wolfe

LR

Fiction

Stephen Amidon

The Art of Eccentricity

Bad Dirt

By Annie Proulx

LR

Martyn Bedford

Confessions Of A Pudendologist

Before I Forget

By André Brink

LR

Sam Leith

Puritans Vs Papists

Havoc, In Its Third Year

By Ronan Bennett

LR

Beatrice Hodgkin

The Urchin’s Tale

Ghost Girl

By Helena McEwen

LR

Diana Athill

Rekindling Cinders

In A Good Light

By Clare Chambers

LR

Christopher Hart

Talking Statues

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

By Susanna Clarke

LR

Ed Caesar

Jane’s Friends

The Jane Austen Book Club

By Karen Joy Fowler

LR

Madeleine Minson Reads Five Compelling First Collections of Short Stories

ZZ Packer,
Neil LaBute,
David Bezmozgis,
Joshua Furst,
Nell Freudenberger

Michael Thorn

Michael Thorn Enjoys Five Enchanting Illustrated Children’s Books

Martin Jenkins,
Kathleen Lines,
Michael Rosen,
Anthony Browne,
Philippa Pearce

Crime

Philip Oakes

Dec/Jan 2004 Crime Round Up

Andrew Taylor,
Dreda Say Mitchell,
Paul Adam,
Robert B Parker,
Lorenzo Carcaterra,
Ed McBain

Dec 2004

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