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21 Kathleen Burk

War and Gold: A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures and Debt Kwasi Kwarteng 23 Leanda de Lisle

Defending the City of God: A Medieval Queen, the First Crusades, and the Quest for Peace in Jerusalem Sharan Newman a n c i e n t wor l d 24 Allan Massie

The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters Adam Nicolson 25 Peter Jones

Delphi: A History of the Center of the Ancient World Michael Scott • Sibyls: Prophecy and Power in the Ancient World Jorge Guillermo 26 Paul Cartledge

Taken at the Flood: The Roman Conquest of Greece Robin Waterfield memoir 28 Simon Heffer

An Encyclopaedia of Myself Jonathan Meades 29 Wendy Moore

Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery Henry Marsh a n i mal s & m i n e r a l s 30 Richard Fortey

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History Elizabeth Kolbert 31 Jan Morris

Underlands: A Journey through Britain’s Lost Landscape Ted Nield 32 Alexandra Harris

Tambora: The Eruption that Changed the World Gillen D’Arcy Wood 33 Tom Fort

Cold Blood: Adventures with Reptiles and Amphibians Richard Kerridge g e n e r a l 34 Anthony Kenny

The Quest for a Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics Kenan Malik 36 John Gray

Mammon’s Kingdom: An Essay on Britain, Now David Marquand 37 Caroline Moorehead

Women of the World: The Rise of the Female Diplomat Helen McCarthy

38 John Sutherland

The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of the World's Greatest Invention Alexander Monro 40 Frances Wilson

Trials of Passion: Crimes in the Name of Love and Madness Lisa Appignanesi 41 Frederic Raphael

Emancipation: How Liberating Europe’s Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance Michael Goldfarb 42 John Gribbin

The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity Pedro G Ferreira 44 Barney Ronay

Love Game: A History of Tennis, from Victorian Pastime to Global Phenomenon Elizabeth Wilson 45 David Bodanis

The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch Lewis Dartnell 46 Mira Bar-Hillel

All that Is Solid: The Great Housing Disaster Danny Dorling p o e t r y 47 Ben Hutchinson

Impromptus: Selected Poems Gottfried Benn f i c t i on 49 Alex Preston The Erl-King Michel Tournier 50 Jonathan Beckman Lost for Words Edward St Aubyn 51 Malcolm Forbes Eyrie Tim Winton 52 Jonathan Miles The Snow Queen Michael Cunningham 53 Oliver Dennis Falling out of Time David Grossman 54 Nick Hayes Polina Bastien Vivès 55 Toby Lichtig Glow Ned Beauman 56 Frank Brinkley Tigerman Nick Harkaway 56 A S H Smyth Redeployment Phil Klay 58 Suzi Feay Fallout Sadie Jones 58 Ted Hodgkinson At Night We Walk in Circles Daniel Alarcón 59 Ophelia Field The Lives of Others Neel Mukherjee

60 Jessica Mann Crime 48 Lucy Popescu Silenced Voices 55 Crossword 15 LR Bookshop m a y 2 0 1 4 | Literary Review 3