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FIELD M ARSHAL LORD CARVER's late st book , The f111p crinf War M11 selltll Book of War i11 It aly: 19431945, wi ll be published by Sidgwick & J ackson in September. ANDREW T AYLOR is the auth o r o f God's F11giti11 e: The Life of C M Oo11ghty. H e is writi ng a book about the ca rtographer Gerard M ercaror. KAT IE HI CKMAN's Travels 1/lith a Cirws, which co ntain s desc ripti ons of so me of M ex ico City's mo s t fa m o u sly obscu r e s u bu r bs, has rece ntly been reiss ued by Fl amingo.
D OUGLAS J OHNSON is Emerit u s Profe sso r of French Hi s tor y at University Coll ege London. MI CHAEL AR.DITTI's award-winning novel , Easter, has just been reissued by Arcadia. H e is curre ntl y sa iling the M editer ran ea n , lec turin g on a Swan H e ll eni c crui se. FRA CES WOOD is curato r of th e Chinese co ll ec ti o ns a t the British Library . H er most recent books, No Dogs a11d Not Many Chi11ese: Treaty Port Life in China 1843-1943 and Hand Grenade Practice i11 Peking, are published by John Murray. D ENNIS SEWELL's Catholics: Britain 's Larges c Mi11ority was enthusiasti ca ll y revi ewed by A N Wilson in our June issue. H e presents Talkitt~ Politics on R adio 4, but can only be contacted on his po rtable tel ephone, which is o ften aba ndoned in restaurants. Once a cavalry officer, his radi cal critique of the British Anny, 1\"ew Model Atwy, enraged his fom1er employers and led tO qu es ti ons in the H ouse . H e has forry co pies in his kitchen, some of them signed . If you wish to obtain one h e can occasionall y be found li g htin g ca ndl es in Farm Stree t hurch. For whom, he wi ll no t say.
MICHAEL NEVE's edition of Darwin's autObiographi ca l writings will appear in Penguin Class ics next yea r.
ANDREW LYCFIT is working on a new biography of Dylan Thomas.
PULPIT
HISTORY
BELLES LETTRES
ARCHITECTURE
BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIRS
NATURAL SELECTIONS
1 4
CHRISTOPHER 0NDAATJE TRIBUT E TO NAIM ATTALLAH
5MI CHAEL CARVER. Wa r Diari es 1939-1945 Field Marsh a l Lord Al a nbrooke 7 RI CHAR D O VE RY Long Shadows: Truth , Lies an d Hi story
Erna P a ri s 9 D oUGLAS J OHNSON Versailles Uncovered: Saint-Simon and th e Co urt of Louis X I V Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie La Crande Mad emoise ll e at th e Court of Fran ce 162 71693 Vincent J Pitts 10 A C GRAYLING Global hct erests: R enaissa nce Art between
East an d West Li sa Jardin e a nd J erry Brotton
12 j EREM Y LE WIS L eft Book C lub Anth ology (E d ) P a ul Laity 13 DJ TAYLOR E11e11 A s We Speak C li ve J ames 14 ALLA N MA SS IE Libraries in th e Ancient World Lionel
Casson 15 P ETER ] ONES Latin , or the Empire of a Sign Fr an c,:o i se
Waqu e t
17 GILLIAN DARLEY Hi s In ve11tion So Fertil e: A Life of
Christopher Wren Adrian Tinniswood 19 BRYAN A PPLEY ARD Morality and A rchitecwre R ev isit ed
David W a tkin
21 ANDR EW LYCETT Bloom sbury and Beyo nd: The Fri ends and Enemies of Ray Campbe/1 Jo se ph Pearce 22 R..t CHARD GOTT CLRJames Farr ukh Dhondy 24 TERESA WA UGH Up from Serfdom: My Chi ldh ood and
Youth in Ru ss ia, 1804-1824 Al e ksa ndr Nikitenko 25 FRANK M CLYNN A Ri ver Running West: Th e Life of
John W es ley Pocve /1 Don a ld Worste r 26 S IMON H EFFER Bea ufort: Th e Du ke ar"td his Duchess
1657-1715 Moll y M cC i a in 27 M! CHAEL BLO H J ea n, L ady H amilton, 1861-1941: A
Soldier's Wife Celia Lee 28 ]ULI ET BARK ER Hild egard of Bingen: The Woman of H er
Age Fi ona M ad do cks
29 ANDR EW TAYLOR The M ap that Changed the W orld
Simon Winch es t e r 30 R oGER OSBORNE Evolution's Workshop: Cod and Sci ence on th e Ca/a pag os fslan.ds Edward J Larso n 31 MI CHAEL NEV E At11~i e's Box: Charles Dant1in , His
Daug h ter and Hu111a11 Evolution R a ndal Ke y nes
LITERARY REVIEW Jul y 2001
Editor: NANCY SLADEK Editorial Assistant: R OWAN T OM LI NSON Genera/ Assistattl: CHARLIE CAMPBELL Contributit'tg Editor: SEBAST IAN SHAKESPEARE Bc4Sill ess & Advertising Manager: R OBERT POSNER
Classified Sales: CHARLIE CAMPBELL Publisher: C HRI STOPHER 0NDAATJE Foundi11g Editor: DR AN NE SMITH Founding Fath er: AUBERON WAUG H
Cover ilhtstrat iott by Chris Riddell lsscce 110. 277
