June 2002 Issue Paul Johnson A Thunderous Recipe for Salad Dressing The Letters of Charles Dickens, Vol 2, 1868-70 By Graham Storey (ed) Charles Dickens By Jane Smiley LR
June 1982 Issue M R D Foot Another King Alfred The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson Vol 1 1821-1850 By Cecil Y Lang and Edgar F Shannon, Jr (ed) LR
August 1988 Issue Toby Buchan Beating is Not The Same Thing as Buggery A Touch of Genius: The Life of T E Lawrence By Malcolm Brown & Julia Cave The Selected Letters of T E Lawrence By Malcolm Brown (ed)
June 2016 Issue Christopher Hart Kiss Kiss Love from Boy: Roald Dahl’s Letters to his Mother By Donald Sturrock (ed)
November 1988 Issue Wendy Brandmark He Delivered a Pair of Old Shoes to James Joyce The Letters of T S Eliot: Volume I 1898-1922 By Valerie Eliot (Ed) Eliot’s New Life By Lyndall Gordon LR
July 1986 Issue Ray Ockenden Rilke the Romantic A Ringing Glass: The Life of Rainer Maria Rilke By Donald Prater Letters, Summer 1926: Pasternak, Tsvetayeva, Rilke By Yevgeny Pasternak, Yelena Pasternak & Konstantin Azadorsky (eds) LR
October 2015 Issue Naomi Wood Falling for Pfife Hemingway in Love: His Own Story By A E Hotchner The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 3 – 1926–1929 By Rena Sanderson, Sandra Spanier & Robert W Trogdon (edd) LR
October 2007 Issue Piers Paul Read Yours, Faithfully Graham Greene: A Life in Letters By Richard Greene (ed) LR
July 2013 Issue Donald Rayfield His Master’s Voice Diaries and Selected Letters By Mikhail Bulgakov (Edited & translated by Roger Cockrell) LR
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) LR
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