December 2012 Issue
Sarah Bradford
Bertie, Lillibet, Margaret & Me
Counting One’s Blessings: The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
By William Shawcross (Ed)
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December 2012 Issue
Francis Wheen
Scourge of Obscenity
Ban This Filth! Letters from the Mary Whitehouse Archive
By Ben Thompson (Ed)
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December 2012 Issue
D J Taylor
The Squire & the Schoolmaster
Selected Letters of Siegfried Sassoon and Edmund Blunden, 1919–1967 Vol 1: 1919–1931; Vol 2: 1932–1947; Vol 3: 1951–1967
By Carol Z Rothkopf (Ed)
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December 2012 Issue
Elspeth Barker
‘Led Away by Paper’
With the Hunted: Selected Writings
By Sylvia Townsend Warner (Edited by Peter Tolhurst)
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December 2012 Issue
Dominic Sandbrook
Did She Or Didn’t She?
‘The Most Remarkable Woman in England’: Poison, Celebrity and the Trials of Beatrice Pace
By John Carter Wood
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December 2012 Issue
Seamus Perry
Laureate of Melancholy
Tennyson: To Strive, To Seek, To Find
By John Batchelor
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December 2012 Issue
Piers Brendon
Lords of the Prairie 24
Prairie Fever: How British Aristocrats Staked a Claim to the American West
By Peter Pagnamenta
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December 2012 Issue
Blair Worden
Authority Figure
The Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes – Leviathan Vol 1: Introduction; Vols 2 & 3: The English & Latin Texts
By Edited by Noel Malcolm
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December 2012 Issue
Richard Davenport-Hines
A Refined Palette
In Search of Rex Whistler: His Life & His Work
By Hugh & Mirabel Cecil
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December 2012 Issue
Paul Johnson
Painting for Pleasure
John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1900–1907 – Complete Paintings, Volume VII
By Richard Ormond & Elaine Kilmurray
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December 2012 Issue
Edmund de Waal
Feat of Clay
The Last Sane Man: Michael Cardew – Modern Pots, Colonialism and the Counterculture
By Tanya Harrod
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February 2013 Issue
George Gömöri
Best Friends Forever
The Album Amicorum and the London of Shakespeare’s Time
By June Schlueter
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February 2013 Issue
Jonathan Meades
The Pen & the Spade
Time’s Anvil: England, Archaeology and the Imagination
By Richard Morris
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February 2013 Issue
David Gelber
Behind Closed Doors
Family Secrets: Living with Shame from the Victorians to the Present Day
By Deborah Cohen
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March 2014 Issue
Diana Athill
Rustic Fantastic
Dreams of the Good Life: The Life of Flora Thompson and the Creation of Lark Rise to Candleford
By Richard Mabey
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April 2014 Issue
Andy McSmith
Politics for Sale
A Quiet Word: Lobbying, Crony Capitalism and Broken Politics in Britain
By Tamasin Cave & Andy Rowell
Democracy Ltd: How Money and Donations Corrupted British Politics
By Bobby Friedman
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April 2014 Issue
Robert Colls
Toil & Trouble
The Valley: A Hundred Years in the Life of a Family
By Richard Benson
The People: The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910–2010
By Selina Todd
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April 2014 Issue
Simon Heffer
More Claret than Red
Roy Jenkins: A Well-Rounded Life
By John Campbell
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April 2014 Issue
Miranda Seymour
Flowers in the Smog
The Gardens of the British Working Class
By Margaret Willes
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April 2014 Issue
Jane Ridley
The Marriage Plot
The Disinherited: A Story of Love, Family and Betrayal
By Robert Sackville-West
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