November 2016 Issue Patrick Scrivenor Voice from the Western Front From Eton to Ypres: The Letters and Diaries of Lt Col Wilfrid Abel Smith, Grenadier Guards, 1914–15 By Charles Abel Smith (ed) LR
December 2003 Issue Patrick O'Connor The Contrary Contralto Letters and Diaries of Kathleen Ferrier By Christopher Fifield (ed) LR
February 2009 Issue Selina Hastings Love and Friendship Love’s Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen & Charles Ritchie – Letters & Diaries 1941–1973 By Victoria Glendinning with Judith Robertson (ed) LR
May 2008 Issue M R D Foot In Daily Peril Forgotten Voices of the Secret War: An Inside History of Special Operations During the Second World War By Roderick Bailey (ed) LR
May 2008 Issue Elspeth Barker A Mouse on the Jasmine Diaries, Letters and Recollections By Lynette Roberts (Edited by Patrick McGuinness) LR
July 2013 Issue Donald Rayfield His Master’s Voice Diaries and Selected Letters By Mikhail Bulgakov (Edited & translated by Roger Cockrell) LR
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