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p u l p i t 1 Kathryn Hughes i r on l a d i e s 5 Linda Porter

Elizabeth’s Bedfellows Anna Whitelock 6 John Adamson

The Iron Princess: Amalia Elisabeth & the Thirty Years War Tryntje Helfferich 8 Dominic Lawson

Margaret Thatcher Charles Moore • Not for Turning: The Life of Margaret Thatcher Robin Harris mus i c & dance 10 Robin Fox

The Dancing Goddesses: Folklore, Archaeology, & the Origins of European Dance Elizabeth Wayland Barber 11 Rupert Christiansen

Nijinsky Lucy Moore 13 Gulliver Ralston

Reinventing Bach Paul Elie h i st or y 14 Patrick Wilcken

The Scramble for the Amazon and the ‘Lost Paradise’ of Euclides da Cunha Susanna B Hecht 16 Paul Lay

Bosworth: The Birth of the Tudors Chris Skidmore 17 Caroline Moorehead

What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France Mary Louise Roberts 18 Richard Bourke

The Enlightenment and Why It Still Matters Anthony Pagden 20 Paul Addison

Modernity Britain David Kynaston a rt & a rt i f i c e 22 Alexandra Harris

Paul Nash: Landscape & the Life of Objects Andrew Causey 23 Tim Hilton

Taxidermy Alexis Turner b i o g r a p hy & memoirs 25 Mick Brown

From Stone to Flesh: A Short History of the Buddha Donald S Lopez Jr