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f r om the p u l p i t 1 D J Taylor l i f e o f the p e n 5 John Stubbs

Thomas Wyatt: The Heart’s Forest Susan Brigden 6 Sam Leith

Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace D T Max 8 Matthew Green

Ryszard Kapuściński: A Life Artur Domosławski 9 Nick Cohen

Mortality Christopher Hitchens 10 Christopher Bray

Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark Brian Kellow • The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael (Ed) Sanford Schwartz l i f e o f the s word 12 Richard Overy

Stalin’s General: The Life of Georgy Zhukov Geoffrey Roberts 13 Michael Burleigh

In the Shadow of the General: Modern France & the Myth of De Gaulle Sudhir Hazareesingh 14 Jonathan Keates

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal & the Real Count of Monte Cristo Tom Reiss 16 Alan Judd

A Very English Hero: The Making of Frank Thompson Peter J Conradi 17 Robert Irwin

The Knights Hospitaller in the Levant, c 1070–1309 Jonathan Riley-Smith pax b r i ta n n i c a 18 David Gilmour

Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain John Darwin 19 Andrew Lycett

The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj Anne de Courcy 20 Leslie Mitchell

Macaulay and Son: Architects of Imperial Britain Catherine Hall