August 2024 Issue Mathew Lyons Prophecies, Potions & Prayers Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic By Tabitha Stanmore LR
October 2021 Issue Dmitri Levitin How Philology Changed the World The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities: An Intellectual History, 1400–1800 By Christopher S Celenza LR
May 2020 Issue John Adamson Born to Marry The Habsburgs: The Rise and Fall of a World Power By Martyn Rady
October 2000 Issue Jane Dunn Need for Magnificence New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors 1485–1603 By Susan Bridgen LR
March 2017 Issue Catherine Fletcher Florence & the Machinator Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli’s Lifelong Quest for Freedom By Erica Benner
February 2004 Issue Andrew Taylor Death Became Him Over The Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe By Laurence Bergreen LR
October 2004 Issue Christopher Ondaatje Courting The Madonna Raphael: From Urbino To Rome By Hugo Chapman, Tom Henry, Carol Plazzotta LR
December 2004 Issue Brenda Maddox The Columbus of Politics Machiavelli: A Man Misunderstood By Michael White LR
December 2004 Issue C A R Hills The Whole World for Their Grave A History of Portuguese Overseas Expansion 1400-1668 By Malyn Newitt LR
June 2012 Issue Paul Johnson Worshipper of Women Raphael: A Passionate Life By Antonio Forcellino (Translated by Lucinda Byatt) 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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