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SIM ON H EFFER A Hi sto ry of Br i tain: Th e Briti sh Wars 1 603-17 76 Simon Schama FRANK M c LYN N I nventing th e Victorians M a t th ew Sweet j EREMY BLA CK Th e Med i terran ea n in the Ancient World F e rnand Braudel

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BEN S HEPHARD Soldiers Pbi l ip Ziegl e r D AV ID P ROFUMO Banvard's Folly Pa ul Coll i n s K AT HR YN HU GHE S Th e Corset: A Cultural H istory V a le ri e Ste e l e PATR ICK O 'CONNOR Man Ray 's Montparnasse H erber t Lottman j ANET GLEESON D eco rat ir1e Arts i n Britain 1500-1900 M i c h ae l Snodin and J ohn S t yles J OHN M cEWEN S ecret K11owl edge: R edi scove ring th e L ost T ec hniqu es of th e Old Ma ste rs D av i d H ockn ey H uco V ICKE R S A Pee rage for Trad e: A H is tory of th e Royal Warrant Tim Hea l d

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P AMELA N o RR tS Midd le Age : A R oman ce j oyce Caro l Oates SEBA ST IAN SHAK ESPEARE Th e Collected Shorter Fi ction J osep h Ro tb M IRANDA FRANCE Portra i t i n. Sepia l sabe l A! Jende S ARA H A SMITH 1 o Saints or Angels ! va n K l im a TERRY SAWYER Going Out Liv e M ark L aws on CHR ISTO PHER H ART City A l essa ndro Bar i cco SAM LEITH M e M e M e Dav i d Hu gg i n s

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LORD C HALFONT is th e author of Montgo111ery of Ala111 ein , published in 1976 by W eidenfeld and Nicol so n.

T IM M ACKINTOSH-SM ITH has li ve d in Yeme n for nin e tee n years and is th e author of Ye111en: Tr ave ls in Diaionary Land, availab le in pape rback from Pi cador. Hi s accla im ed Trave ls IIJit h a Tangerine: A j onru ey in th e Footnotes of l bn Battut ah was publi shed in Apri l by Jo h n Murra y.

P N FuR.BANK is th e author of Iralo Svevo: The Man and The ~Vr ir e r (See ke r & Warburg 1966).

SARAH ANDERSON fou n ded th e Travel Bookshop in 1979. H e r most r ecen t book is Im ide Notting H ill, w hi c h she publi shed he rse lf

B EN SHEPHARD's A War of Ne r11e s Qonathan Cape £20) wil l be available in pap.erback from Pimli co in Febmary.

A IDAN H ARTLEY h as cove red East Africa, includin g the Sudan ese c iv il war, as a j o urnalist and po litical analyst s in ce 1988. H e w rites the week ly 'Wild Life' co lumn for The Speaat<>r o nlin e (www.spectato r. co. uk). He was born in Kenya and lives with his fami ly in a remote ra nching distri ct northwest of Mount Kenya. H is new book, at the moment called Eurpry Q11arrer, will be published next year by HarperCollins .

TERRY SAWYER 's hi sto r y of the di ese l-e lec tric locom o ti ve Power! is pub lish e d b y the Footpl a t e Press. H e breeds P o li s h c h i c k e n s i n Kirkintu ll oc h and is president of th e Law re nce Whelk Fan C lub .

C HRI STO PH ER H ART, under th e pseudonym Wi lli am Napier, h as wri tten a ro ll icking b loc kb uste r of a novel ca ll ed )11/ia, se t in Britain in the las t days of t he R o m an Empire (H ea d lin e £9.99).

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