SEPTEMBER 2006

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THE AWESOME ANGLOSPHERE Andrew Roberts’s History of the English-Speaking Peoples

Louis XIV’s Lovers ★★ Talleyrand’s Treachery Freud’s Wizard ★★ Vermeer’s Forger Lionheart ★★ Lackland ★★ LUCIFER

Peter Washington on Leonard Woolf Carole Angier on Andrew Motion Francis King on John Betjeman

BASTARDS &BARONETS

Gertrude Bell ★★ T ELawrence Colin Thubron on the Silk Road

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SEPTEMBER FICTION: JG Ballard ★★ Margaret Atwood ★★ Mark Haddon ★★ Le Carré Barry Unsworth ★★ Vikram Chandra ★★ William Boyd ★★ Michel Faber ★★ many more...