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Xan Smiley
What the Secret Agent Saw
A Brutal State of Affairs: The Rise and Fall of Rhodesia
By Henrik Ellert & Dennis Anderson
December 2020 Issue
Tim Stanley
Too Nice to Be President?
His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life
By Jonathan Alter
Reaganland: America’s Right Turn 1976–1980
By Rick Perlstein
November 2020 Issue
D J Taylor
Sex, Drugs & Poetry
I Wanna Be Yours
By John Cooper Clarke
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September 2020 Issue
Wendy Holden
They Moved the Goalposts
The Fleet Street Girls: The Women Who Broke Down the Doors of the Gentlemen’s Club
By Julie Welch
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March 2020 Issue
D J Taylor
Fiction, Feminism & Fake Vicars
A Bite of the Apple: A Life with Books, Writers and Virago
By Lennie Goodings
January 1980 Issue
Judy Dempsey
The Czech Dissidents
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Jonathan Meades
Facing the Music
Vinyl.Album.Cover.Art: The Complete Hipgnosis Catalogue
By Aubrey Powell
December 2016 Issue
Justin Beplate
Endgame
The Letters of Samuel Beckett: Volume IV, 1966-1989
By George Craig, Martha Dow Fehensenfield, Dan Gunn & Lois More Overbeck (edd)
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Julian Rathbone
Gradgrind – Alive and Well?
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Nick Hornby
Wanna Get Funky?
Shots from the Hip
By Charles Shaar Murray
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June 1989 Issue
Graydon Carter
A Model Middle-American
Reunion: A Memoir
By Tom Hayden
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March 2015 Issue
Alwyn W Turner
No Bartók before Breakfast
Pinkoes and Traitors: The BBC and the Nation, 1974–1987
By Jean Seaton
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March 2015 Issue
John Sweeney
Kimnapped
A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Incredible True Story of North Korea and the Most Audacious Kidnapping in History
By Paul Fischer
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March 2015 Issue
Jonathan Mirsky
Peace Powwow
Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David
By Lawrence Wright
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September 2008 Issue
Kenneth O Morgan
Unelected & Underrated
Downing Street Diary: Volume Two – With James Callaghan in No 10
By Bernard Donoughue
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May 2008 Issue
Jonathan Mirsky
Operating Underground
Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: An Extraordinary Diary of Courage from the Vietnam War
By Dang Thuy Tram (Translated by Andrew X Pham), Introduction by Frances FitzGerald
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March 2008 Issue
Mary Kenny
Caught in the Crossfire
Watching the Door: Cheating Death in 1970s Belfast
By Kevin Myers
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December 2007 Issue
Michael Burleigh
Where It All Began
The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising
By Yaroslav Trofimov
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Jessica Mann
Bohemian Girl
Paper Houses: A Memoir of the 70s and Beyond
By Michèle Roberts
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May 2012 Issue
Frank Close
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By David Kaiser
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