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Frederick Taylor
Inside the Nightmare
On the Other Side: Letters to My Children from Germany 1940–46
By Mathilde Wolff-Mönckeberg
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Patrick O’Connor
Love From Snoopie
The Letters of Noël Coward
By Barry Day (ed)
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Alan Brownjohn
How the Poet Became
Letters of Ted Hughes
By Christopher Reid (ed)
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October 2007 Issue
Piers Paul Read
Yours, Faithfully
Graham Greene: A Life in Letters
By Richard Greene (ed)
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September 2007 Issue
Alexander Waugh
‘A Leetle Beet Mad’
The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters
By Charlotte Mosley (ed)
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William Packer
Star-Struck
Visiting Picasso: The Notebooks and Letters of Roland Penrose
By Elizabeth Cowling
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David Collard
Possum Agonistes
The Letters of T S Eliot, Volume 3: 1926–1927
By Valerie Eliot & John Haffenden (ed)
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July 2012 Issue
David Cesarani
Dear Führer…
Letters to Hitler
By Henrik Eberle (ed) (Translated by Steven Rendall; English edition edited &introduced by Victoria Harris)
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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)
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May 2013 Issue
Robert Gordon
The Reluctant Autobiographer
Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941–1985
By Martin McLaughlin (translated)
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February 2014 Issue
Richard Canning
Yours Unfaithfully
The Animals: Love Letters Between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy
By Katherine Bucknell (ed)
The Man Who Was Norris: The Life of Gerald Hamilton
By Tom Cullen
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July 2013 Issue
Jay Parini
Antic Roadshow
Kurt Vonnegut: Letters
By Dan Wakefield (ed)
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August 2013 Issue
Donald Rayfield
Letters to the Editor
The Readers of Novyi Mir: Coming to Terms with the Stalinist Past
By Denis Kozlov
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October 2013 Issue
Jane Ridley
Listen to Mother
Darling Monster: The Letters of Lady Diana Cooper to her Son John Julius Norwich
By John Julius Norwich (ed)
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October 2013 Issue
Justin Beplate
Talking Bull
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 2, 1923-1925
By Sandra Spanier, Albert J DeFazio III & Robert W Trogdon (edd)
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April 2013 Issue
John Sutherland
Signed, Sealed, Delivered
Dear Mark Twain: Letters from His Readers
By R Kent Rasmussen
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