From the December 2010 Issue A History of Helios Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star that Gives Us Life By Richard Cohen LR
From the May 2010 Issue Prankster’s Progress The Sultan of Zanzibar: The Bizarre World and Spectacular Hoaxes of Horace de Vere Cole By Martyn Downer LR
From the November 2009 Issue A Class Apart Aristocrats: Power, Grace and Decadence By Lawrence James LR
From the July 2009 Issue Richer Sounds Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation By Roger Scruton LR
From the December 2008 Issue The Pied Piper Effect The Triumph of Music: Composers, Musicians and their Audiences, 1700 to the Present By Tim Blanning LR
From the June 2008 Issue Much Love From Frisky Madresfield: The Real Brideshead – One House, One Family, One Thousand Years By Jane Mulvagh LR
From the April 2008 Issue The Maestro Matures Diaries 1915–1923: Behind the Mask By Sergey Prokofiev (Translated and annotated by Anthony Phillips) LR
From the December 2007 Issue Loony Tunes This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession By Daniel Levitin Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain By Oliver Sacks LR
From the October 2007 Issue Flapping About Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation, 1918–1940 By D J Taylor LR
From the September 2007 Issue ‘A Leetle Beet Mad’ The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters By Charlotte Mosley (ed) LR
From the February 2007 Issue On and On and On How to Live Forever or Die Trying By Bryan Appleyard LR
From the November 2006 Issue La Paille et La Poutre 50 Reasons to Hate the French By Jules Eden and Alex Clarke LR
From the June 2005 Issue An Unrepentant Englishman: The Life of S P B Mais, Ambassador of the Countryside An Unrepentant Englishman: The Life of S P B Mais, Ambassador of the Countryside By Maisie Robson LR
From the February 2005 Issue From ‘Gilgamesh’ To ‘Doctor No’ The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories By Christopher Booker LR
From the December 2011 Issue Bringing the House Down The Gentry: Stories of the English By Adam Nicolson LR
From the March 2013 Issue Bittersweet Symphony The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev By Simon Morrison Sergey Prokofiev: Diaries 1924–1933 – Prodigal Son By Anthony Phillips (ed) LR
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