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28 Robert Irwin

Unfabling the East: The Enlightenment’s Encounter with Asia Jürgen Osterhammel 30 Jo hn Man

The History of Central Asia, Volume Four: The Age of Decline & Revival Christoph Baumer

literary lives 31 David Wheatley

The Collected Letters of Flann O’Brien Maebh Long (ed) 33 Ke vin Jackson

The Ink Trade: Selected Journalism 1961–1993 Anthony Burgess

foreign parts 34 Jurek Martin

The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House Ben Rhodes 36 O liver Balch

The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India’s New Gilded Age James Crabtree 37 S imon Heffer

On Germany Giles MacDonogh 38 C hristopher Coker

Asian Waters: The Struggle over the Asia-Pacific & the Strategy of Chinese Expansion Humphrey Hawksley

fashion 39 Shahidha Bari

Pretty Gentlemen: Macaroni Men & the Eighteenth-Century Fashion World Peter McNeil 40 C harlotte Bolland

Tudor Fashion: Dress at Court Eleri Lynn 41 R amita Navai

Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress Elizabeth Bucar

general 43 Richard Norton-Taylor

Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, & the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy Rory Cormac 45 Mar tin Vander Weyer

Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking & the Regulatory State Paul Tucker 46 Julianne Sc hultz

The Empire’s New Clothes: The Myth of the Commonwealth Philip Murphy

47 W illiam Brodrick

In Your Defence: Stories of Life & Law Sarah Langford 49 S ara Wheeler

Natural Causes: Life, Death & the Illusion of Control Barbara Ehrenreich 50 David Bodanis

The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein: The Far East, Palestine & Spain, 1922–1923 Ze’ev Rosenkranz (ed)

fiction 53 Pamela Norris

Clock Dance Anne Tyler 54 L ucian Robinson

My Year of Rest and Relaxation Ottessa Moshfegh 55 Adr ian Nathan West

Oreo Fran Ross 56 Cat riona Ward

Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense Joyce Carol Oates 57 S uzi Feay

Days of Awe A M Homes 58 Dec lan Ryan

Asymmetry Lisa Halliday 59 Elisa S egrave

Story of a Marriage Geir Gulliksen 60 Ian Cr itchley

So Much Life Left Over Louis de Bernières 61 Imogen W oodberry

Testament Kim Sherwood

children’s books 62 Philip Womack on nine new books

crime 64 Jessica Mann on seven new novels 65 S tephen Bates

Conan Doyle for the Defence Margalit Fox

silenced voices 66 Lucy Popescu on Galal El-Behairy & Wael Abbas

bookends 72 Christopher Fletcher on auto-destructive books

26 Liter ary Review Bookshop 52 Letters 52 Crossword

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