From the October 2024 Issue Ballads of the Blitz Poetry of the Second World War By Tim Kendall (ed) LR
From the December 2023 Issue Dead Poets Society The Penguin Book of Elegy: Poems of Memory, Mourning and Consolation By Andrew Motion & Stephen Regan (EDD)
From the June 2015 Issue For Love & Money The Complete Works of W H Auden: Prose – Volume V, 1963–1968 By Edward Mendelson (ed) The Complete Works of W H Auden: Prose – Volume VI, 1969–1973 By Edward Mendelson (ed) LR
From the December 2011 Issue Dating Games The Twentieth Century in Poetry By Michael Hulse & Simon Rae (ed) LR
From the October 2012 Issue To Swell a Progress On Poetry By Glyn Maxwell Beyond the Lyric: A Map of Contemporary British Poetry By Fiona Sampson LR
From the March 2014 Issue Modern Family Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore By Linda Leavell LR
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Nick Harkaway, John le Carré's son, has gone back to the 1960s with a new novel featuring his father's anti-hero, George Smiley.
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