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24 James Sharpe

Gypsies: An English History David Cressy • The Stopping Places: A Journey through Gypsy Britain Damian Le Bas 26 Richard Cockett

Shadows of Empire Michael Kenny & Nick Pearce

money 27 Howard Davies

Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World Adam Tooze 28 Vicky Pryce

The Bank That Lived a Little: Barclays in the Age of the Very Free Market Philip Augar

cloak & dagger 30 Simon Heffer

The Zinoviev Letter Gill Bennett 32 Adrian Tinniswood

Invisible Agents: Women & Espionage in SeventeenthCentury Britain Nadine Akkerman 33 Michael S Goodman

The Secret World: A History of Intelligence Christopher Andrew

memoirs 34 Natasha Cooper

The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind Barbara K Lipska • Radiation Diaries Janet Todd • Milkshakes and Morphine Genevieve Fox 35 Lilian Pizzichini

The Crossway Guy Stagg 36 Felix Taylor

Where Shall We Run To? A Memoir Alan Garner

poetry 37 Paul Bailey

The Long Take Robin Robertson • playtime Andrew McMillan • England: Poems from a School Kate Clanchy (ed)

general 38 Dominic Sandbrook

21 Lessons for the 21st Century Yuval Noah Harari 39 John Pollard

Absolute Power: How the Pope Became the Most Influential Man in the World Paul Collins 41 Charles Foster

Orca Jason M Colby • Spying on Whales Nicholas Pyenson

42 Jane O’Grady

The Incurable Romantic and Other Unsettling Revelations Frank Tallis 43 Lucy Moore

The Queen’s Embroiderer: A True Story of Paris, Lovers, Swindlers, & the First Stock Market Crisis Joan DeJean 45 John Martin Robinson

The Country House Library Mark Purcell

footprints 48 Jonathan Keates on Bram Stoker’s Dracula

fiction 49 Simon Baker

Now We Shall Be Entirely Free Andrew Miller 50 Matt Rowland Hill

History of Violence Edouard Louis 50 Miranda France

All Among the Barley Melissa Harrison 52 Frank Brinkley

Country Michael Hughes • Everything Under Daisy Johnson • Metamorphica Zachary Mason 54 Ian Critchley

After the Party Cressida Connolly 54 David Collard

Dedalus Chris McCabe 55 Kathy O’Shaughnessy on four new historical novels 56 Josie Mitchell

The Female Persuasion Meg Wolitzer 57 John Phipps

Perfidious Albion Sam Byers 58 Rebecca Watson

In the Garden of the Fugitives Ceridwen Dovey

obituary 59 Natasha Cooper on Jessica Mann

silenced voices 60 Lucy Popescu on Ablajan Awut Ayup

bookends 64 Alan Taylor on Anne Smith

32 Literary Review Bookshop 46 Letters 40 Crossword

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