July 2019 Issue Veronica Buckley Sovereign on Whom The Sun Never Set King of the World: The Life of Louis XIV By Philip Mansel LR
April 2019 Issue Alexandra Walsham The Curious Case of the White Radishes The Voices of Nîmes: Women, Sex, and Marriage in Reformation Languedoc By Suzannah Lipscomb LR
July 2017 Issue Philip Mansel State of the Arts The Sovereign Artist: Charles Le Brun and the Image of Louis XIV By Wolf Burchard LR
May 2017 Issue Allan Massie Toxic Relations City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris By Holly Tucker LR
October 2003 Issue Douglas Johnson Cut-Throat Courtiers The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV LR
February 2008 Issue Jonathan Keates The Paladin of Panache Cyrano: The Life and Legend of Cyrano de Bergerac By Ishbel Addyman 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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