October 2025 Issue
Nigel Andrew
This Sceptered Isle
The Discovery of Britain: An Accidental History
By Graham Robb
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October 2025 Issue
Will Wiles
Airing It Out
Adventurous Vents: A Journey through the Ventilation Shafts of Britain
By Lucy Lavers, Judy Ovens & Suzanna Prizeman
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Gillian Tindall
History in the Making
Craftland: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Arts and Vanishing Trades
By James Fox
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August 2025 Issue
David Leeder
One-Track Minds
Off the Rails: The Inside Story of HS2
By Sally Gimson
August 2025 Issue
Robert Colls
Know the Score
Injury Time: Football in a State of Emergency
By David Goldblatt
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August 2025 Issue
Piers Brendon
Tale of Two Allies
The Last Titans: Churchill and de Gaulle
By Richard Vinen
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August 2025 Issue
Simon Heffer
Bylines are Forever
Talk of the Devil: The Collected Writings of Ian Fleming
By Ian Fleming
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August 2025 Issue
Tim Richardson
Wood You Believe It?
The Genius of Trees: How Trees Shaped the Elements and Mastered the World
By Harriet Rix
Forgotten Forests: Twelve Thousand Years of British and Irish Woodlands
By Jonathan Mullard
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July 2025 Issue
Michael Delgado
Pay Pals
Drayton and Mackenzie
By Alexander Starritt
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July 2025 Issue
Zoe Guttenplan
Unusual Suspects
The Pentecost Papers
By Ferdinand Mount
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Sam Kitchener
Back in the Day
Twelve Post-War Tales
By Graham Swift
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June 2025 Issue
Rachel Armitage
Bringing up Baby
Gunk
By Saba Sams
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June 2025 Issue
Tanya Harrod
Cut from the Same Canvas
Artists, Siblings, Visionaries: The Lives and Loves of Gwen and Augustus John
By Judith Mackrell
June 2025 Issue
Will Cohu
Marking Time
Homework: A Memoir
By Geoff Dyer
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June 2025 Issue
Hassan Akram
Norfolk Rhapsodies
Poppyland
By D J Taylor
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May 2025 Issue
Richard Vinen
For Career & Country
National Service Life Stories: Masculinity, Class, and the Memory of Conscription in Britain
By Peter Gurney, Matthew Grant & Joel Morley
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May 2025 Issue
Isabel Bannerman
Practise What You Pleach
Of Thorn & Briar: A Year with the West Country Hedgelayer
By Paul Lamb
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May 2025 Issue
Ysenda Maxtone Graham
Altar Egos
Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever: A New Generation’s Search for Religion
By Lamorna Ash
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May 2025 Issue
Cressida Connolly
Dustmen to Dust
No Ordinary Deaths: A People’s History of Mortality
By Molly Conisbee
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May 2025 Issue
Peter Davidson
Off the Wall
Bardfield Murals: Ravilious, Bawden, Rowntree and Others
Bardfield Murals: Ravilious, Bawden, Rowntree and Others
By Alan Powers
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