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THIS MONTH’S PULPIT is written by Donald Rayfield. Updated versions of his Stalin and his Hangmen have recently been published in Russia and Poland, and his new translation of Gogol’s Dead Souls, with 96 engravings by Marc Chagall, is available from Garnett Press.
ALAN RYAN retired as Warden of New College on 31 August; he looks forward to having the time to read and write the books he had no time for in the past decade.
SARAH BRADFORD is writing a book about Queen Victoria.
FREDERIC RAPHAEL’s most recent book is the fourth volume of his Personal Terms, entitled Ticks and Crosses (Carcanet).
RICHARD FORTEY FRS was formerly a senior palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum. He has written six books, the latest being Dry Store Room No.1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum (HarperCollins).
LEANDA DE LISLE’s latest book is The Sisters Who Would Be Queen: The Tragedy of Mary, Katherine & Lady Jane Grey (HarperPress).
DOMINIC SANDBROOK’s latest book, A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties, is published by Little, Brown. He is currently Senior Fellow at the Rothermere Institute, University of Oxford.
STEPHEN BRUMWELL’s Paths of Glory: The Life and Death of General James Wolfe was selected as one of the Top 100 Books of 2007 by Canada’s Globe & Mail newspaper, and won the 2008 Distinguished Book Award of the Society of Colonial Wars, New York.
FRANCES WILSON is writing a book about the owner of the Titanic.
PULPIT
LITERARY LIVES
HISTORY
STAGE & SCREEN
BIOGRAPHY
ART & ARCHITECTURE
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DAVID PRYCE-JONES Muriel Spark: The Biography Martin Stannard PAUL JOHNSON Charles Dickens: A Life Defined by Writing Michael Slater FREYA JOHNSTON Samuel Johnson: A Life David Nokes RALEIGH TREVELYAN William Golding: The Man Who Wrote ‘Lord of the Flies’ John Carey DIANA ATHILL The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham Selina Hastings JEREMY LEWIS James Lees-Milne: The Life Michael Bloch
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LEANDA DE LISLE Elizabeth’s Women: The Hidden Story of the Virgin Queen Tracy Borman STEPHEN BRUMWELL Death or Victory: The Battle of Quebec and the Birth of Empire Dan Snow DAVID CESARANI Hindenburg: Power, Myth, and the Rise of the Nazis Anna von der Goltz ARCHIE BROWN The Red Flag: Communism and the Making of the Modern World David Priestland DOMINIC SANDBROOK Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia Francis Wheen JAMES HOLLAND Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940–45 Max Hastings JONATHAN DERBYSHIRE History Man: The Life of R G Collingwood Fred Inglis ALAN RYAN Keynes: The Return of the Master Robert Skidelsky
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PATRICK O’CONNOR Different Drummer: The Life of Kenneth MacMillan Jann Parry FRANK MCLYNN Joseph P Kennedy’s Hollywood Years Cari Beauchamp
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RICHARD FORTEY An Infinity of Things: How Sir Henry Wellcome Collected the World Frances Larson PETER MARSHALL Martyrs and Murderers: The Guise Family and the Making of Europe Stuart Carroll FREDERIC RAPHAEL Judas: A Biography Susan Gubar SARAH BRADFORD The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One Miranda Carter
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PEYTON SKIPWITH John Piper, Myfanwy Piper: Lives in Art Frances Spalding HARRY MOUNT The Secret Lives of Buildings: From the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories Edward Hollis
Editor: NANCY SLADEK Deputy Editor: TOM FLEMING Editor-at-Large: JEREMY LEWIS Assistant Editor: JONATHAN BECKMAN
Contributing Editors: SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE, PHILIP WOMACK
Advertising Manager: TERRY FINNEGAN Classified Advertising: DAVID STURGE
Founding Editor: DR ANNE SMITH Founding Father: AUBERON WAUGH
Cover illustration by Chris Riddell
Issue no. 369
LITERARY REVIEW September 2009
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