May 2023 Issue Robin Oakley Tour of the Turf Courses for Horses: A Journey Round the Racecourses of Great Britain and Ireland By Nicholas Clee
February 1985 Issue Geoff Dyer Excellent Ephemera Firebird 4: New Writing from Britain and Ireland By Robin Robertson LR
March 2019 Issue Simon Heffer Death in the Car Park The Man Who Was Saturday: The Extraordinary Life of Airey Neave By Patrick Bishop LR
August 1992 Issue David Pascoe On the Trail of Large Bottoms James Joyce: The Years of Growth 1882–1915 By Peter Costello LR
March 2017 Issue Damian Thompson Holy Trail The Catholics: The Church and Its People in Britain and Ireland, from the Reformation to the Present Day By Roy Hattersley LR
November 2003 Issue Frank McLynn Whose Ireland Robert Emmet: The Making of a Legend By Marianne Elliott LR
August 2008 Issue Toby Barnard Brewing Troubles God’s Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland By Micheál O’Siochrú LR
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December 2011 Issue Vernon Bogdanor Lion, Harp & Unicorn The Two Unions: Ireland, Scotland, and the Survival of the United Kingdom, 1707–2007 By Alvin Jackson LR
October 2013 Issue Mary Kenny Unsceptring the Isle Fatal Path: British Government and Irish Revolution 1910–1922 By Ronan Fanning The Republic: The Fight for Irish Independence 1918–1923 By Charles Townshend LR
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