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July 2008 Issue Peter Washington It’s All Relative House of Wits: An Intimate Portrait of the James Family By Paul Fisher LR
August 2007 Issue Leo McKinstry Pioneers at Work The Industrial Revolutionaries: The Creation of the Modern World 1776–1914 By Gavin Weightman LR
July 2006 Issue Henrietta Garnett A Palette of Painters The Private Lives of the Impressionists By Sue Roe LR
April 2006 Issue Jane Rye The Studio in the South The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles By Martin Gayford LR
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