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27 Andrew Lycett

The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue Frederick Forsyth 28 Richard Canning

Kid Gloves: A Voyage Round My Father Adam Mars-Jones music 30 Gulliver Ralston

My Life with Wagner Christian Thielemann 31 Alwyn Turner

Electric Shock: From the Gramophone to the iPhone – 125 Years of Pop Music Peter Doggett 33 Rupert Christiansen

O Sing Unto the Lord: A History of English Church Music Andrew Gant england, etc 34 Tom Shippey

Beda: A Journey through the Seven Kingdoms in the Age of Bede Henrietta Leyser 35 Robert Colls

Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears Thomas Dixon 38 Seamus Perry

Weatherland: Writers & Artists under English Skies Alexandra Harris in the genes 39 Dennis Sewell

The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge Matt Ridley 40 Henry Gee

Life’s Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code Matthew Cobb general 41 Richard Vinen

Promised You a Miracle: UK80–82 Andy Beckett • Thatcher’s Trial: Six Months that Defined a Leader Kwasi Kwarteng 43 Michael Burleigh

Mission Accomplished? The Crisis of International Intervention Simon Jenkins 44 Martin Vander Weyer

Other People’s Money: Masters of the Universe or Servants of the People? John Kay 45 Shane Harris

Cyberphobia: Identity, Trust, Security & the Internet Edward Lucas

46 John Stubbs

The Poetry of John Milton Gordon Teskey 48 Philip Womack

Harry Mount’s Odyssey: Ancient Greece in the Footsteps of Odysseus Harry Mount 49 Alex Hutchinson

Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon Ed Caesar • The Bolt Supremacy: Inside Jamaica’s Sprint Factory Richard Moore 50 Andreas Campomar

The Ugly Game: The Qatari Plot to Buy the World Cup Heidi Blake & Jonathan Calvert • Matchdays: The Hidden Story of the Bundesliga Ronald Reng • Balotelli: The Remarkable Story behind the Sensational Headlines Luca Caioli 52 Elspeth Barker

Love and Lies: And Why You Can’t Have One Without the Other Clancy Martin 53 Christopher Silvester

‘It’s the Pictures that Got Small’: Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder & Hollywood’s Golden Age (ed) Anthony Slide fiction 56 Henri Astier

Submission Michel Houellebecq 57 Ian Sansom

Purity Jonathan Franzen 58 Mark Lawson

Where My Heart Used to Beat Sebastian Faulks 59 Keith Miller

The Blue Guitar John Banville 60 Pamela Norris

Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay William Boyd 61 Sam Kitchener on four debuts 62 Francesca Wade

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights Salman Rushdie 63 Catherine Taylor

The Story of the Lost Child Elena Ferrante 64 Susanna Hislop

Our Souls at Night Kent Haruf 66 Nick Major

Green Glowing Skull Gavin Corbett

67 Jessica Mann Crime 55 Lucy Popescu Silenced Voices 54 Crossword 42 Literary Review Bookshop at Heywood Hill september 2015 | Literary Review 3