JULY 2000

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MI RANDA SEYMOUR Sidetracks: Exp loration of a Romantic Biographer Richard Holmes J OHN GRIG G D ar ing to H ope: Th e Diaries at7 d L etters of V io let Bonham Ca rt e r, 1946-1969 (Ed) M ar k Pottle

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ROY PORTER The Republic of Britain: 1760 to the Prese nt Frank Prochaska RoY H ATTERSLEY Fo urth A m ong Eq uals Bill Rodgers THEODORE DALRYMPLE L o rd L ongford's Prison Di ary Lord Longford KATHRYN H UGHES ON EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LONDON

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WILLIAM P ACKER Looking Ba ck at Fra ncis Bacon David Sy l vester J OHN M cEWEN Cot7str ucting Mod ernity : The Art & Ca reer of Naum Cabo M a rtin Hammer and C hri stin a Ladder M ARK STEYN Wh ich Li e D id I T e ll ? More Adventures in the Screen Trad e William Goldman

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ANDREW LY CETT The Cr isis of R easo n: European Tho~1ght, 1 848 -1 914 ] WBurrow PETER ] ONES Th e Cambridge Hi sto ry of Creek and Roman Political Th ought (Ed) C hristopher Rowe & Malcolm Schofie ld J OHN GRIBBEN Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution Richard Fortey PATRICK O'CONNOR Pi ck le d , Pott ed and Canned: The Story of Food Preserv ing Sue Sheph a rd

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GEORGE WALDEN Certrude and C laud iu s J oh n Updike M AR TYN BEDFORD How th e Dead Li ve Will Self J ANE CHARTER IS Horse H eaven. J ane Smiley J OHN DuGDALE Th e H ouse of L eaves M ark Z Danielewski FRAN C IS KING Th e Cla ss P alace Amitav Ghosh ALAN M AHAR Pilg rim Timothy Findley H ARRIET SERGEANT The Binding Chair K a thr yn H arr i son SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE Th e Forg e r Paul W a tkin s BEN YARDE-BULLER To th e H ermitage M alco lm Bradbury

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JOHN Grt iGG is writi ng the fourth vo lume of his l ife of Ll oyd-George. The last three are availab le in paperback from H arperColli ns at £ 12 .99 eac h . Hi s book on t h e Second World War, 1943: The Victory tha t Never Was, has recen tl y been reissued in paperback (Penguin £8.99).

JOAN SMITH's new book, Moralities, will be published by Penguin in 2001. It argues that human beings should have lots more sex, and give up torture.

J OHN ADAM SON is Fellow of Pe terhouse, Camb rid ge. His most recent book is Th e Princely Courts of Europe 1500-1750, pub lis hed by W eidenfeld & Nicolson.

DANIEL J OHNSON is Associa te Editor (Cu lture) at the Daily Te legraph. H e is working o n a hi story of German th o ught.

VI CTORIA GR. IFFIN is th e auth or of The Mistress: Histories, Myths & In terpretations of the 'Other Woman' (Bloomsbury, 1999). She is worki ng on a book about the great courtesans of th e French Second Empire.

PAM ELA NoRRIS's Th e S tory of Eve, a b iograp h y of th e first wo m an, is publi s h e d in pap e rback b y Macmillan. She is currently writing a book abo ut romanti c love.

A C GRAYLING is R ea der In P h i losophy at Birkb ec k Co ll ege, University of London .

H AR.R IET SERGEANT 's masterpiece, Shanghai, is ava il abl e in paperback from J ohn Murray at £13.99.

MARK STEYN's BroadiVay Babies Say Goodl'light is pub li shed in paperback by Fabe r & Faber.

JOHN GRIBBI N is a Vi si t ing Fellow in Ast ro n omy at th e University of S u ssex, and a uth or of T he Birth CJ[Time (Phoenix).

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