Robert Colls

Writing Bareback

Tony Bareham

Penelope Lively

A Writer’s Britain

Margaret Drabble, A Writer's Britain: Landscape in Literature 281pp. Thames and Hudson £10.50

Julian Rathbone

Jesus Saves

A Married Man

By Piers Paul Read

Penelope Lively

The English Path

The English Path

By Kim Taplin

Marie Drabble

A Victorian Courtship

A Victorian Courtship: The Story of Beatrice Potter and Sidney Webb

By Jeanne Mackenzie

Clive Emsley

Sacred and Profane Love

Bruce Lenman

1707: The Union of Scotland and England

1707: The Union of Scotland and England

By P. H. Scott

Ralph Houlbrooke

Wanton Wenches and Wayward Wives

Wanton Wenches and Wayward Wives: Peasants and Illicit Sex in Early Seventeenth Century England

By G. R. Quaife

Caroline Rehder

Whip Hand

Whip Hand

By Dick Francis

Derek Watson

The Slender Musical Muse

The English Musical Renaissance: Twentieth century British composers & their works

By Peter J. Pirie

Michael Herbert

Fragments of Sillitoe

The Storyteller

By Alan Sillitoe

Krzysztof Cieszkowski

Two Exhibitions

Thomas Hudson (1701-1779), Portrait Painter and Collector: a Bi-Centenary Exhibition

By Kenwood, The lveagh Bequest, London, 6 July-30 September

Venetian Seventeenth Century Painting: a Loan Exhibition from Collections in Britain and Ireland

By National Gallery, London, 5 September-30 November

P. N. Furbank

Harsh Dichotomies

A. E. Housman: The Scholar-poet

By Richard Percival Graves

Cherry Clayton

Emma Tennant, Wild Nights

Wild Nights

By Emma Tennant

Philip Parker

Much Ado About Offa

Offa: King of the Mercians

By Rory Naismith

Will Wiles

Door to Door

The English House: A History in Eight Buildings

By Dan Cruickshank

Tom Shippey

927 and All That

The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom

By David Woodman

Jonathan Keates

Over Troubled Water

Waterloo Bridge and London River: Investigations and Reflections

By Andrew Saint