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26 David Healy

Our Necessary Shadow: The Nature & Meaning of Psychiatry Tom Burns • Strictly Bipolar Darian Leader b i o g r a p hy 27 Frances Wilson

The Poets’ Daughters: Dora Wordsworth & Sara Coleridge Katie Waldegrave 28 Roger Kimball

The Memoirs of Walter Bagehot Frank Prochaska 30 Martin Goodman

A Jew Among Romans: The Life & Legacy of Flavius Josephus Frederic Raphael 32 John Guy

Crown of Thistles: The Fatal Inheritance of Mary Queen of Scots Linda Porter f or e i g n pa rts 34 Jonathan Fenby

How Asia Works Joe Studwell 35 Patrick Porter

Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield Jeremy Scahill 36 Jonathan Mirsky

Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-First Century Orville Schell & John Delury 38 Allan Massie

Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo Tim Parks 39 Miranda France

Operation Massacre Rodolfo Walsh b at t l e f or the b a r d 40 Alexander Waugh

Shakespeare Beyond Doubt: Evidence, Argument, Controversy (Edd) Paul Edmondson & Stanley Wells 41 Stanley Wells

Shakespeare Beyond Doubt? Exposing an Industry in Denial (Edd) John M Shahan & Alexander Waugh g e n e r a l 43 Eric Ormsby

The Bible in Arabic Sidney H Griffith 44 David Bodanis

Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think Victor Mayer-Schönberger & Kenneth Cukier 46 Matthew Sperling

The Selected Letters of Anthony Hecht (Ed) Jonathan F S Post

47 Caroline Moorehead

Earthly Mission: The Catholic Church & World Development Robert Calderisi 48 Robert Chesshyre

The Authors XI: A Season of English Cricket from Hackney to Hambledon The Authors Cricket Club 49 John Harwood

Animal Trials Edward Payson Evans 50 John Stubbs

The Oxford Handbook of Holinshed ’s ‘Chronicles’ (Edd) Paulina Kewes, Ian W Archer & Felicity Heal 52 Anthony Sattin

The Shadow King: The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut’s Mummy Jo Marchant 53 Andrew Lycett

A Prince Among Stones: That Business with the Rolling Stones & Other Adventures Rupert Loewenstein 54 Michael Evans

Trading Secrets: Spies & Intelligence in an Age of Terror Mark Huband p o e t r y 45 Andrew Greig ‘At Bay of Skaill’ 56 Peter Scupham on three new volumes f i c t i on 57 Keith Miller MaddAddam Margaret Atwood 58 Jonathan Lee The Guts Roddy Doyle 58 Sam Leith The Maid ’s Version Daniel Woodrell 60 Ivan Juritz on five first novels 61 Michèle Roberts Brief Loves that Live Forever Andreï Makine 62 John Dugdale The Son Philipp Meyer 62 Peter Scott Red or Dead David Peace 64 Alec Ash The Dark Road Ma Jian 65 Hannah Rosefield Let the Games Begin Niccolò Ammaniti 66 Malcolm Forbes A Marker to Measure Drift Alexander Maksik 66 Laura Marsh Three Novels César Aira 67 Anjali Joseph The Orchard of Lost Souls Nadifa Mohamed

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