November 2012 Issue
John Sutherland
Rowed to Success
Below the Fairy City: A Life of Jerome K Jerome
By Carolyn W de la L Oulton
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November 2012 Issue
David Astor
An American in Parliament
Nancy: The Story of Lady Astor
By Adrian Fort
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December 2012 Issue
Patricia Fara
You Do the Math
Poor Robin’s Prophecies: A curious Almanac, and the everyday mathematics of Georgian Britain
By Benjamin Wardhaugh
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December 2012 Issue
Duncan White
Thinking Inside the Box
The Outsider: A History of the Goalkeeper
By Jonathan Wilson
Does Your Rabbi Know You’re Here? The Story of English Football’s Forgotten Tribe
By Anthony Clavane
I Am the Secret Footballer: Lifting the Lid on the Beautiful Game
By Anonymous
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December 2012 Issue
Alan Judd
On the Road
On Wheels: Five Easy Pieces
By Michael Holroyd
Carscapes: The Motor Car, Architecture and Landscape in England
By Kathryn A Morrison and John Minnis
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December 2012 Issue
John Sweeney
‘As British as Suet Pudding’
Cruel Britannia: A Secret History of Torture
By Ian Cobain
LR
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)
LR
December 2012 Issue
Elspeth Barker
‘Led Away by Paper’
With the Hunted: Selected Writings
By Sylvia Townsend Warner (Edited by Peter Tolhurst)
LR
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
LR
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
LR
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
LR
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
LR
December 2012 Issue
Edmund de Waal
Feat of Clay
The Last Sane Man: Michael Cardew – Modern Pots, Colonialism and the Counterculture
By Tanya Harrod
LR
February 2013 Issue
George Gömöri
Best Friends Forever
The Album Amicorum and the London of Shakespeare’s Time
By June Schlueter
LR
February 2013 Issue
Jonathan Meades
The Pen & the Spade
Time’s Anvil: England, Archaeology and the Imagination
By Richard Morris
LR
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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