From the February 2022 Issue Sleeping with the Enemy Love and Deception: Philby in Beirut By James Hanning Beirut Spy: The St George Hotel Bar – International Intrigue in the Middle East By Saïd K Aburish LR
From the September 2021 Issue The Original Culture Warriors The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War By Louis Menand LR
From the June 2021 Issue The Spies Who Loved Each Other Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy By Anne Sebba LR
From the April 2019 Issue Phoney Peace Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War By Tim Bouverie LR
From the December 2018 Issue The Philosopher’s Rock In Search of Isaiah Berlin: A Literary Adventure By Henry Hardy LR
From the December 2002 Issue Sacrificed Genius to Respectability Wordsworth: A Life in Letters By Juliet Barker LR
From the April 2016 Issue Enlightening Words Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Historian By Blair Worden (ed) LR
From the November 2015 Issue Agent Reckless Stalin’s Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess By Andrew Lownie LR
From the September 2003 Issue Lamb Stew A Double Life: A Biography of Charles and Mary Lamb By Sarah Burton LR
From the October 2004 Issue The English Che Guevara The Last English Revolutionary: Tom Wintringham, 1898-1949 By Hugh Purcell LR
From the November 2004 Issue More Than Just A Pair Of Legs Perdita: The Life of Mary Robertson By Paula Byrne LR
From the December 2004 Issue 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
From the November 2006 Issue A Huguenot Heavyweight Europe’s Physician: The Various Life of Sir Theodore de Mayerne By Hugh Trevor-Roper LR
From the September 2006 Issue Missives from a Master Letters from Oxford: Hugh Trevor-Roper to Bernard Berenson By Richard Davenport-Hines (ed) LR
From the December 2011 Issue A Historian’s Heart The Wartime Journals By Hugh Trevor-Roper (Edited by Richard Davenport-Hines) LR
From the February 2005 Issue He Lived Too Long Fiery Heart: The First Life of Leigh Hunt By Nicholas Roe The Wit in the Dungeon: Leigh Hunt and His Circle By Anthony Holden LR
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