October 2023 Issue David Wheatley Burdens of a Nobel Laureate The Letters of Seamus Heaney By Christopher Reid (ed) LR
August 2021 Issue Heather Clark Life Among the Savages The Letters of Shirley Jackson By Laurence Jackson Hyman (ed)
November 1979 Issue Stephen Gill The Youthful Lawrence The Letters of D H Lawrence Volume 1 1901–13 By James T Boulton (ed)
August 1999 Issue Clive Bush Wily and Tough Man who Became an Insider Henry James: A Life in Letters By Philip Horne (ed) LR
July 2018 Issue David Wheatley Yours Severely The Collected Letters of Flann O’Brien By Maebh Long (ed)
November 2017 Issue Elaine Showalter Sunny Sylvia The Letters of Sylvia Plath: Volume I, 1940–1956 By Peter K Steinberg & Karen V Kukil (edd)
December 2016 Issue George Szirtes Poet in the Making The Alien in the Chapel: Ferenc Békássy, Rupert Brooke's Unknown Rival - Poems and Letters By George Gömöri & Mari Gömöri (ed) LR
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
January 1982 Issue Ruth Dudley Edwards Complete Writer Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler By Frank MacShane (ed)
December 2015 Issue Victoria Glendinning Ink & Inclination Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch 1934–1995 By Avril Horner & Anne Rowe (edd)
November 2015 Issue Matthew Parker From Ian with Love The Man with the Golden Typewriter: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters By Fergus Fleming (ed) LR
May 2003 Issue Jessica Mann Life After Crime The Letters of Dorothy L Sayers By P D James (preface), Barbara Reynolds (ed) LR
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) LR
October 2008 Issue Jeremy Lewis Grub Street Grouser Julian Maclaren-Ross: Selected Letters By Paul Willetts (ed) LR
May 2008 Issue Elspeth Barker A Mouse on the Jasmine Diaries, Letters and Recollections By Lynette Roberts (Edited by Patrick McGuinness) LR
June 2008 Issue Frances Wilson Words of Love Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles 1910–1939 By Katie Roiphe LR
April 2008 Issue Nicholas Murray Cerebrotonic Missives Selected Letters of Aldous Huxley By James Sexton LR
April 2008 Issue Belinda Jack No Romance Wartime Notebooks: and Other Texts By Marguerite Duras, Edited by Sophie Bogaert and Olivier Corpet, (Translated by Linda Coverdale) LR
October 2007 Issue Piers Paul Read Yours, Faithfully Graham Greene: A Life in Letters By Richard Greene (ed) LR
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