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29 Charles Fernyhough

Forgetting: Myths, Perils & Compensations Douwe Draaisma 30 Anil Ananthaswamy

NeuroTribes: How to Think Smarter about People Who Think Differently Steve Silberman • In a Different Key: The Story of Autism John Donvan & Caren Zucker poetry 32 Robert Crawford

The Poems of T S Eliot: Volume I, Collected & Uncollected Poems (edd) Christopher Ricks & Jim McCue • The Poems of T S Eliot: Volume II, Practical Cats & Further Verses (edd) Christopher Ricks & Jim McCue biography 34 Nicholas Roe

Eternity’s Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake Leo Damrosch 36 John Keay

The Prisoner of Kathmandu: Brian Hodgson in Nepal 1820–43 Charles Allen 37 Frederic Raphael

Orson Welles: One Man Band Simon Callow • Young Orson: The Years of Luck & Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane Patrick McGilligan

39 Jonathan Mirsky

The Cooler King: The True Story of William Ash – Spitfire Pilot, POW and WWII’s Greatest Escaper Patrick Bishop art & architecture 40 Jonathan Meades

Space, Hope and Brutalism: English Architecture 1945–1975 Elain Harwood 41 David Ekserdjian

Picture Titles: How & Why Western Paintings Acquired Their Names Ruth Bernard Yeazell 43 Will Wiles

Fallen Glory: The Lives & Deaths of Twenty Lost Buildings from the Tower of Babel to the Twin Towers James Crawford literary lives 44 Jay Parini

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3 (edd) Benjamin Griffin & Harriet Elinor Smith 45 Victoria Glendinning

Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch 1934–1995 (edd) Avril Horner & Anne Rowe 46 Alan Judd

John le Carré: The Biography Adam Sisman +

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