contents may 2016 • issue 442 Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Editor-at-Large Jeremy Lewis Assistant Editors Frank Brinkley • David Gelber Contributing Editors Jonathan Beckman Michael Burleigh • Sara Wheeler • Philip Womack Editorial Assistant Francesca Carington Advertising Manager Terry Finnegan Classified Advertising David Sturge Marketing Manager Katherine Bogden Bayard Founding Father Auberon Waugh Founding Editor Dr Anne Smith Cover Illustration Chris Riddell
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pulpit 1 Simon Heffer history 8 Leslie Mitchell
Heyday: Britain & the Birth of the Modern World Ben Wilson 9 Adam Zamoyski
The Habsburg Empire: A New History Pieter M Judson 11 Peter Moore
The Savage Shore: Extraordinary Stories of Survival & Tragedy from the Early Voyages of Discovery Graham Seal 12 Mary Kenny
The Seven: The Lives & Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic Ruth Dudley Edwards 13 Norman Stone
Lawrence of Arabia’s War: The Arabs, the British & the Remaking of the Middle East in WWI Neil Faulkner 15 Timothy Brook
The Gunpowder Age: China, Military Innovation, & the Rise of the West in World History Tonio Andrade art 16 Matthew Sturgis
Aubrey Beardsley: A Catalogue Raisonné Linda Gertner Zatlin kings & queens 18 Munro Price
The Life of Louis XVI John Hardman 19 Susan Doran
Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years John Guy 21 Sarah Bradford
Edward VII: The Cosmopolitan King Richard Davenport-Hines pretenders 22 Linda Porter
The Last Royal Rebel: The Life & Death of James, Duke of Monmouth Anna Keay • Charles II: The Star King Clare Jackson 24 Dominic Green
Jacobites: A New History of the ’45 Rebellion Jacqueline Riding
