Cover Stories

The Illustrated Dust Jacket 1920-1970

By Martin Salisbury

The Needle & the Damage Done

Mayhem: A Memoir

By Sigrid Rausing

Body Language

Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum

By Kathryn Hughes

Fu Man Who?

Lord of Strange Deaths: The Fiendish World of Sax Rohmer

By Phil Baker and Antony Clayton (edd)

The Hidden Tradition

The Daemon Knows: Literary Greatness and the American Sublime

By Harold Bloom

Alms for Oblivion

Nibs Drawn

Literary Rivals: Feuds and Antagonisms in the World of Books

By Richard Bradford

Go, Gadget

The Selected Letters of Elia Kazan

By Albert J Devlin & Marlene J Devlin (edd)

A Tale of Two Dickens

Charles Dickens: A Life

By Claire Tomalin

Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist

By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

My Own Private Idiolect

The Language Wars: A History of Proper English

By Henry Hitchings

The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel

By Nicholas Ostler

In A Bind

Phantoms on the Bookshelves

By Jacques Bonnet (Translated by Siân Reynolds with an introduction by James Salter)

Proust’s Overcoat

By Lorenza Foschini (Translated by Eric Karpeles)

Wake Up, England!

What Ever Happened to Modernism?

By Gabriel Josipovici

‘Look, I’m Listening, and listen, I’m looking.’

The Oxford Book of Parodies

By John Gross (ed)

Coarser Connections

E M Forster: A New Life

By Wendy Moffat

Concerning E M Forster

By Frank Kermode

Biblomania

The Oxford Companion to the Book

By Michael F Suarez, S J and H R Woudhuysen

Between The Covers

Howards End is On the Landing

By Susan Hill

Rare Book-Dealer

Outside of a Dog: A Bibliomemoir

By Rick Gekoski

Ha’p’orth of Tar