DECEMBER 2004 I JANUARY 2005

FOREIGN PARTS

NOTEBOOKS & MEMOIRS

BAD SEX REPORT

GENERAL

FICTION

CRIME SILENCED VOICES AUDIOBOOK POEIRY COMPETITION

40 J ONATHAN MI RSKY S ecret H is tories: Finding George

Orwell in a B u rmes e T eas hop Emma Lark in 41 D ONALD R AYF IELD Putin 's Ru ss ia Anna P o l i t kovskaya 43 J W M THOMPSON Letterfrom America: 1946--2004 Alistair Cooke 44 FRANK FAIRFIELD Pari s : Biog rap h y of a City Co l in ] o n es

Th e White C ities : Reports from France 1925-39 J oseph R o th

45 ADAM S ISMAN ON THE N OTEBOOKS OF S T COLER IDGE 48 VI C TORIA GLEND I NN I NG H alf an Ar ch: A Memoir

Jona th an Ga th orne- H ardy 49 ANDREW LYCETT Tolki en's Gown & Other Stories of Great

Authors and Rare Books Rick Gekosk i

51 ALAN R AFFER TV

ADAM SI SM AN is the a u thor of &swell's Presumptuous Task (2000). H e is w riting a book about th e friendship between Wordsworth and Coleridge.

RI CHARD OVERv 's acclaimed Th e Diaators: Hitler's Gennm1y, Staliu 's Russia was published in J une by Alien Lane.

PEYTON SKJPWITH is the Director of the Fine Art Society, and a writer and critic.

AlExANDER W AUGH, since the crowning success of his latest book, Fathers a"d So, s: Th e Autobiography of a Family (Headlin e), has been feeling awful and empty, unable to enjoy the praise.

53 PETER WASH INGTON The R eading Nat ion in th e Romat7t ic

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Period W i l l i a m St Cl a ir 54 RI CHARD GRAY The Cruise of the Vanadis Edi t h W h arton 56

OPHELIA F IELD Wiv es and D aughters: Women and Chi ldr en in th e Georg ian Country H ou se J oa n na M a rt in N IC K SMITH W i lfr ed Th es ig e r: A L i fe in Pi ctures A l exander M a i t l and DAVID PRO FUMO A Bird in the Bush: A Social H istory of Birdwatching Steph en Moss The Strange D eath of British Birdso ng Mich ael W a t e r h o u se How to be a Bad B irdwatcher Simon Bames PETER 0B ORNE A Y ear at the R aces J ane Smil ey Th e Briti sh Stab le Giles W ors l ey CHR ISTOPHER 0NDA ATJ E Spice J ac k T urn er

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62 J O HN DU GDALE I am Charlott e Simmon s Tom Wo l fe 63 STEPHEN AMID ON Bad Dirt An n i e Pro ul x 64 MARTYN BEDF ORD B efo re I Forg e t And re Brink 65 66 67 68

SAM L E ITH H avo c, in i ts Third Y ear R onan Be n nett BEATRI CE H ODGKIN Ghost Gi rl H e l e n a M cEwen D IANA ATHILL I n a Good Light Clare Chambers CHRI STO PHER HART j onath an Strange & Mr Norre/1 Susanna C l arke Eo CAESAR Th e ] ane A us ten Book C lub Karen Joy Fowler M ADELEINE M INSON ON SHORT STORIES MI C HAEL TH ORN ON CH ILDREN 'S BOOKS

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P HIL IP 0AKE S LU CY P O PESCU SUSAN CROSLAND PAPERBACKS 74 LR CROSSWORD 42 LETTER S 74

CAROUNE MOOREHEAD's Human Cargo: A j oumey a111011g Refi.gees will be published in February by Chatto & Windus.

A LLAN MAssiE is the author of ninetee n novels , th e most rece nt of which, Caligula, is available from Sceptre.

P ETER W AS HINGTON is Genera l Editor of Everyman's Library .

GRAHAM STEWART's Th e Murdoc/1 Years, volume seven o f the History of Th e Times, wi ll b e publis h ed nex t yea r. H is s tud y of friendsh i p a n d be tra yal in politi cal li fe will fo llow it.

BRENDA MAooox's next book, Freud's Wizard: The Story cfEmest )ones, w ill be published by J ohn M urray.

J OHN MCEWEN rece n tl y published a monograph of William Gear (Lund H umphri es).

N ICK SMITH I S Editor of Geog raphica l, th e magazin e of th e R oyal Geograp h ical Society.

P ATR ICK O 'CONNOR 's book s include a biog rap h y of Jo se phin e Baker Oonathan Cape 1988) .

L ucv P OPESCU is Programm e Direc tor of English PEN 's Write rs in Priso n Committee.

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