contents september 2016 • issue 446 Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Editor-at-Large Jeremy Lewis Assistant Editors Frank Brinkley • David Gelber Editorial Assistant Francesca Carington Contributing Editors Jonathan Beckman Michael Burleigh • Sara Wheeler • Philip Womack 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 Vybarr Cregan-Reid history 6 Peter Moore
Crusoe’s Island: A Rich & Curious History of Pirates, Castaways & Madness Andrew Lambert 7 David Edgerton
Continental Drift: Britain & Europe from the End of Empire to the Rise of Euroscepticism Benjamin GrobFitzgibbon • Britain’s Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict & Cooperation Brendan Simms 9 Miranda Seymour
The Trials of the King of Hampshire: Madness, Secrecy & Betrayal in Georgian England Elizabeth Foyster 10 Adam Zamoyski
The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815–1914 Richard J Evans 12 Richard Overy
The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End, 1917–1923 Robert Gerwarth 14 Jeremy Lewis
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: Churchill’s Mavericks – Plotting Hitler’s Defeat Giles Milton 15 Ted Vallance
A Fiery & Furious People: A History of Violence in England James Sharpe literary lives 18 Mike Jay
The Divine Madness of Philip K Dick Kyle Arnold 19 Sheila Fitzpatrick
Lara: The Untold Love Story That Inspired Doctor Zhivago Anna Pasternak 21 Frances Wilson
Byron’s Women Alexander Larman 22 Ian Sansom
Orwell’s Nose: A Pathological Biography John Sutherland from the sibillini 24 Joanna Kavenna poetry 25 Germaine Greer
Odes Sharon Olds
