December 2024 Issue
Isaac Nowell
Pilchards, Packets & Pasties
Trelawny’s Cornwall: A Journey Through Western Lands
By Petroc Trelawny
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Daisy Dunn
Paper Trails
The Story of Drawing: An Alternative History of Art
By Susan Owens
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September 2024 Issue
Matthew Parris
How Very Interesting
A Voyage Around the Queen
By Craig Brown
September 2024 Issue
Philip Parker
Once Upon a Time in the West
Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction
By Jerry Brotton
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September 2024 Issue
William G Naphy
Go Forth and Self-Deny
Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity
By Diarmaid MacCulloch
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September 2024 Issue
Philip Womack
Oh, the Places You’ll Go
The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading
By Sam Leith
August 2024 Issue
Mathew Lyons
Prophecies, Potions & Prayers
Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic
By Tabitha Stanmore
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August 2024 Issue
George Cochrane
Don’t Look Now
Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us
By Anna Bogutskaya
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July 2024 Issue
Thomas Morris
Reader’s Digest
Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut
By Elsa Richardson
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July 2024 Issue
David Goodhart
Going for Woke
Taboo: How Making Race Sacred Produced a Cultural Revolution
By Eric Kaufmann
June 2024 Issue
Julian Spalding
But is It Art?
Battle for the Museum: Cultural Institutions in Crisis
By Rachel Spence
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June 2024 Issue
Alex Goodall
The Show Must Not Go On
The Playbook: A Story of Theatre, Democracy and the Making of a Culture War
By James Shapiro
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April 2024 Issue
Ben Wilson
Scribblers with a Cause
Writing on the Wall: Graffiti, Rebellion and the Making of Eighteenth-Century Britain
By Madeleine Pelling
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April 2024 Issue
Rosa Lyster
Two Sides to the Story
The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting: How a Bunch of Rabble Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne’er-do-wells Concocted Creative Nonfiction
By Lee Gutkind
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April 2024 Issue
Adrian Tinniswood
Just My Type
The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives
By Adam Smyth
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April 2024 Issue
Sophie Oliver
Dress to Transgress
All the Rage: Power, Pain, Pleasure – Stories from the Frontline of Beauty 1860–1960
By Virginia Nicholson
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February 2024 Issue
Craig Clunas
The Light of Asia: A History of Western Fascination with the East
The Light of Asia: A History of Western Fascination with the East
By Christopher Harding
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February 2024 Issue
Ian Sansom
Ireland’s Lost Generation
Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother’s Secrets
By Clair Wills
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February 2024 Issue
Rosemary Ashton
Crape Expectations
Rites of Passage: Death and Mourning in Victorian Britain
By Judith Flanders
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February 2024 Issue
Jonathan Wolff
Tomorrow is Another Election
In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea
By Jonathan White
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