June 2019 Issue Nicholas Roe The Pen & the Spade The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels By Adam Nicolson
December 2018 Issue Norma Clarke In Search of Dona Quixote Charlotte Lennox: An Independent Mind By Susan Carlile LR
October 1993 Issue Peter Levi A Most Ridiculous but Lovable Man Revived The Magus of the North: J G Hamann and the Origins of Unseen Irrationalism By Isaiah Berlin
November 2000 Issue Andrew Lycett No More Respected and More Read than Johnson Boswell's Presumptuous Task By Adam Sisman LR
April 2000 Issue Kathryn Hughes Now It Can Be Told Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life By Janet Todd LR
June 2017 Issue Ben Hutchinson Voilà un Homme! Goethe: Life as a Work of Art By Rüdiger Safranski (Translated by David Dollenmayer)
November 2016 Issue Norma Clarke Sir Novelty Back in Fashion Partial Histories: A Reappraisal of Colley Cibber By Elaine M McGirr
May 2016 Issue Catherine Peters He Stoops to Conquer Brothers of the Quill: Oliver Goldsmith in Grub Street By Norma Clarke LR
December 2015 Issue Nicholas Roe Encompassing Genius Eternity’s Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake By Leo Damrosch
March 2003 Issue Peter Washington Austen’s Onion Becoming Jane Austen: A Life By Jon Spence Jane Austen's 'Outlandish Cousin': The Life and Letters of Eliza de Feuillide By Deirdre Le Faye LR
August 2003 Issue Peter Washington Sons of Scotland Tobias Smollett By Jeremy Lewis Electric Shepard: A Likeness of James Hogg By Karl Miller LR
November 2008 Issue William St Clair The Spirit of His Age William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man By Duncan Wu LR
February 2005 Issue Selina O’Grady A Life of Experiment Mary Wollstonecraft: A New Genus By Lyndall Gordon LR
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Nick Harkaway, John le Carré's son, has gone back to the 1960s with a new novel featuring his father's anti-hero, George Smiley.
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