July 2018 Issue Frank McLynn Landgrabber-in-Chief The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation By Colin G Calloway LR
August 2008 Issue Jonathan Sumption ‘Can One Save a King Who is on Trial?’ A History of Political Trials from Charles I to Saddam Hussein By John Laughland LR
December 2007 Issue Leslie Mitchell Keeping an Eye on the Neighbours Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire, 1714–1783 By Brendan Simms LR
December 2011 Issue Kwasi Kwarteng The Brute Facts Britain’s Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt By Richard Gott LR
December 2011 Issue Vernon Bogdanor Lion, Harp & Unicorn The Two Unions: Ireland, Scotland, and the Survival of the United Kingdom, 1707–2007 By Alvin Jackson 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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