From the June 2017 Issue Broad Church In the Days of Rain: A Daughter, a Father, a Cult By Rebecca Stott Priestdaddy: A Memoir By Patricia Lockwood LR
From the April 2017 Issue Look into My Eyes The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound By Wendy Moore
From the September 2016 Issue Last Light Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies By Ross King LR
From the August 2016 Issue Physician, Conceal Thyself Dr James Barry: A Woman Ahead of Her Time By Michael du Preez & Jeremy Dronfield
From the March 2008 Issue No Mary Poppins Other People’s Daughters: The Lives and Times of the Governess By Ruth Brandon LR
From the August 2007 Issue Upstairs, Downstairs Mrs Woolf and the Servants: The Hidden Heart of Domestic Service By Alison Light LR
From the September 2006 Issue Shenanigans at Sixty No! I Don’t Want to Join a Bookclub By Virginia Ironside LR
From the April 2006 Issue Of Barons and Butchers The Sunlight on the Garden: A Family in Love, War and Madness By Elizabeth Speller LR
From the February 2006 Issue The Bright Incongruity of It All Gone to New York: Adventures in the City By Ian Frazier LR
From the October 2005 Issue Still Cooking Up A Storm The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton By Kathryn Hughes LR
From the August 2005 Issue She Had Bugs to Pin Discovering Dorothea: The Life of the Pioneering Fossil-hunter Dorothea Bate By Karolyn Shindler LR
From the February 2005 Issue The Pied Piper of Manhattan Rats: A Year with New York’s Most Unwanted Inhabitants By Robert Sullivan LR
From the March 2012 Issue On the Northern Line Mondrian in London: How British Art Nearly Became Modern By Charles Darwent LR
From the March 2005 Issue False Idols England's Lost Eden: Adventures in a Victorian Utopia By Philip Hoare LR
From the April 2005 Issue Look What the Tide Dragged In The Wreckers: A Story of Killing Seas, False Lights and Plundered Ships By Bella Bathurst LR
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