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Patrick O'Connor
The Contrary Contralto
Letters and Diaries of Kathleen Ferrier
By Christopher Fifield (ed)
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Michael Burleigh
Dispatches from Air Force One
Reagan: A Life In Letters
By Ronald Reagan, Kiron K Skinner, Annelise Anderson, Martin Anderson (edd), George P Shultz (foreword)
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Allan Massie
Liberal With A Punch
Isaiah Berlin: Flourishing, Letters 1928-46
By Henry Hardy (Ed)
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April 2015 Issue
Richard Davenport-Hines
Notes from a Sunset of Culture
My Dear BB: The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Kenneth Clark, 1925–1959
By Robert Cumming (ed)
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Brenda Maddox
In A Word: My Wife
Gustav Mahler: Letters to his Wife
By Henry-Louis de La Grange, Günter Weiss, Knud Martner (edd) Antony Beaumont (Trans)
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November 2004 Issue
Simon Heffer
Another Kind of Corpsing
Letters From a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten - Volume 3, 1946-1951
By Donald Mitchell, Philip Reed, Mervyn Cooke (edd)
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Donald Rayfield
His Better Half
Letters to Véra
By Vladimir Nabokov (Translated and edited by Olga Voronina & Brian Boyd)
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Jay Parini
‘I Am in My Element And I Defy You…’
Saul Bellow: Letters
By Benjamin Taylor
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Kevin Jackson
In For A Penny
Ezra Pound to His Parents: Letters 1895–1929
By Mary de Rachewiltz, A David Moody and Joanna Moody
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Jonathan Keates
A Duke Abroad
Letters from London and Europe
By Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (Translated by J G Nichols)
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December 2009 Issue
Richard Davenport-Hines
Saving His Soul
The Letters of T S Eliot, Volume Two: 1923–1925
By Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton (ed)
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December 2009 Issue
Michael Glover
Artistic Impressions
Vincent van Gogh: The Letters
By Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker (ed)
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October 2009 Issue
David Kynaston
Saturday Specials
Dear Mr Bigelow: A Transatlantic Friendship
By Frances Woodsford
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June 2009 Issue
Hugh Haughton
Not Yet I
The Letters of Samuel Beckett 1929–1940
By Martha Dow Fehsenfeld (ed) and Lois More Overbeck (ed)
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June 2009 Issue
John Gray
The Cosy Philosopher
Enlightening: Letters 1946–1960
By Isaiah Berlin, (Edited by Henry Hardy and Jennifer Holmes with the assistance of Serena Moore)
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Selina Hastings
Love and Friendship
Love’s Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen & Charles Ritchie – Letters & Diaries 1941–1973
By Victoria Glendinning with Judith Robertson (ed)
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December 2008 Issue
Brenda Maddox
Infinite Mischief
Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell
By Thomas Travisano (ed) with Saskia Hamilton
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November 2008 Issue
Patrick O’Connor
Champagne & Kindness
Ever, Dirk: The Bogarde Letters
By John Coldstream (ed)
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November 2008 Issue
Claudia FitzHerbert
‘Life is the Only Cure for Life’
The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Volume 5: 1922
By Katherine Mansfield, (Edited by Vincent O’Sullivan and Margaret Scott)
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August 2008 Issue
Francis King
Late Flowering
So I Have Thought of You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald
By Terence Dooley (ed) (With a preface by A S Byatt)
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