From the March 1991 Issue Not So Quaint As It Seems A Social History of the English Countryside By G E Mingay LR
From the April 2002 Issue He Took a Prostitute to Meet Queen Victoria American Scoundrel: Love, War And Politics In Civil War America By Thomas Keneally LR
From the June 1996 Issue Why Did Anyone Wish to Discover the Poles? I May Be Some Time: Ice and The Imagination By Francis Spufford
From the April 2003 Issue ‘My Name is A L Rowse…’ The Diaries of A L Rowse By A L Rowse, Richard Ollard (ed) LR
From the May 2003 Issue Thinker, Scientist, Banker, Spy Elusive Rothschild: The Life of Victor, Third Baron By Kenneth Rose LR
From the April 2004 Issue Travels With My Lover In Search of a Beginning: My Life with Graham Greene By Yvonne Cloetta as told to Marie-Françoise Allain (Translated by Euan Cameron) LR
From the August 2004 Issue Highly-Strung Hero Stradivarius: Five Violins One Cello And A Genius By Toby Faber LR
From the November 2004 Issue A Nation Writes Our Hidden Lives: The Everyday Diaries of a Forgotten Britain 1945-1948 By Simon Garfield (ed) LR
From the December 2004 Issue Across-The-Pond Life Letters from America: 1946-2004 By Alistair Cooke LR
From the March 2010 Issue The Writing Gene Did You Really Shoot The Television? A Family Fable By Max Hastings LR
From the October 2009 Issue ‘I Whirl Aimlessly’ Climbing the Bookshelves: The Autobiography By Shirley Williams LR
From the July 2009 Issue Reticence & Rectitude Attlee’s Great Contemporaries: The Politics of Character By Frank Field (ed) LR
From the September 2008 Issue What the Sovereign Saw Our Times: The Age of Elizabeth II By A N Wilson LR
From the February 2007 Issue From Hon To Rebel Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford By Peter Y Sussman (ed) LR
From the February 2013 Issue Unparliamentary Behaviour An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo By Richard Davenport-Hines LR
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