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28 Seamus Perry
The Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer Richard Holmes 30 Andrew Gallix
Looking for ‘The Outsider’: Albert Camus & the Life of a Literary Classic Alice Kaplan man & beast 32 Robin Oakley
The Age of the Horse: An Equine Journey through Human History Susanna Forrest 33 Richard Smyth
Where the Animals Go: Tracking Wildlife with Technology in 50 Maps & Graphics James Cheshire & Oliver Uberti gardens & landscapes 35 Tim Richardson on five books about Capability Brown 38 Charles Elliott
Lives of the Great Gardeners Stephen Anderton history 39 Bernard Porter
Protest, Defiance and Resistance in the Channel Islands: German Occupation, 1940–45 Gilly Carr, Paul Sanders & Louise Willmot 40 Patrick Scrivenor
From Eton to Ypres: The Letters & Diaries of Lt Col Wilfrid Abel Smith, Grenadier Guards, 1914–15 (ed) Charles Abel Smith 42 John Man
The History of Central Asia: The Age of Islam & the Mongols Christoph Baumer 43 Anthony Kenny
Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450–1650 Carlos M N Eire 45 James Howard-Johnston
Outlandish Knight: The Byzantine Life of Steven Runciman Minoo Dinshaw general 47 Wendy Moore
Entanglement: The Secret Lives of Hair Emma Tarlo 48 Robert Chesshyre
Another Day in the Death of America Gary Younge 49 David Patrikarakos
Salafi-Jihadism: The History of an Idea Shiraz Maher
50 Barney Ronay
Home and Away: Writing the Beautiful Game Karl Ove Knausgaard & Fredrik Ekelund 51 Valerie Grove
How to Write Like Tolstoy: A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers Richard Cohen 52 Allan Massie
The Marches: Border Walks with My Father Rory Stewart 53 Jonathan Mirsky
Patient H. M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, & Family Secrets Luke Dittrich 54 Manjit Kumar
Timekeepers: How the World Became Obsessed with Time Simon Garfield 55 Nigel Andrew
Television: A Biography David Thomson • Play All: A Bingewatcher’s Notebook Clive James 56 Robert J Mayhew
The Making of the British Landscape: From the Ice Age to the Present Nicholas Crane fiction 58 Yasmine Seale
Nicotine Nell Zink 59 Andrew Crumey
Wonders Will Never Cease Robert Irwin 60 Pamela Norris
The Dark Flood Rises Margaret Drabble 61 Cressida Connolly
Autumn Ali Smith 62 Houman Barekat
Swing Time Zadie Smith 63 Jude Cook
Private Citizens Tony Tulathimutte 64 Tom Williams
A Horse Walks into a Bar David Grossman 65 Miranda France
The Purple Swamp Hen & Other Stories Penelope Lively 66 Ian Critchley
The Dark Circle Linda Grant
68 Lucy Popescu Silenced Voices 63 Crossword • 69 Letters 34 Literary Review Bookshop at Heywood Hill Jessica Mann is away this month. Her crime fiction reviews will be back in the December / January issue.
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