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Yours, Unfaithfully
The Dolphin Letters, 1970–1979: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell and Their Circle
By Saskia Hamilton (ed)
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Shoulders Have I Rubbed
The Glossy Years: Magazines, Museums and Selective Memoirs
By Nicholas Coleridge
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The Art of the Deal
Mr Five Per Cent: The Many Lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the World’s Richest Man
By Jonathan Conlin
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High & Mighty
Entitled: A Critical History of the British Aristocracy
By Chris Bryant
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File Bodies
The Secret Twenties: British Intelligence, the Russians and the Jazz Age
By Timothy Phillips
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Dark Arts & Coronets
Scenes and Apparitions: Diaries 1988-2003
By Roy Strong
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European Son
Fault Lines
By David Pryce-Jones
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Orgasms are Hell
A House in St John’s Wood: In Search of My Parents
By Matthew Spender
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Notes from a Sunset of Culture
My Dear BB: The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Kenneth Clark, 1925–1959
By Robert Cumming (ed)
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Always Travel Heavy
On the Wilder Shores of Love: A Bohemian Life
By Lesley Blanch (Edited by Georgia de Chamberet)
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Socialists & Socialites
The Red Earl: The Extraordinary Life of the 16th Earl of Huntingdon
By Selina Hastings
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Scenes from a Literary Life
Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris
By Edmund White
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Magpies, Squirrels and Thieves: How the Victorians Collected the World
By Jacqueline Yallop
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Soul Medicines & Secular Sacrements
High Society: Mind-Altering Drugs in History and Culture
By Mike Jay
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Roving Correspondent
Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin
By Elizabeth Chatwin and Nicholas Shakespeare (eds)
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From the August 2010 Issue
Rhyme Of The Flying Bomb
Bomber County
By Daniel Swift
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From the June 2010 Issue
No Mere Pageant
History and the Enlightenment
By Hugh Trevor-Roper
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Saving His Soul
The Letters of T S Eliot, Volume Two: 1923–1925
By Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton (ed)
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Places To Go, People To See…
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By Jan Morris
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The Rest Is Nothing
Florence 1900: The Quest for Arcadia
By Bernd Roeck (Translated by Stewart Spencer)
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