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THIS MONTH’S PULPIT is written by Stephen Vizinczey, whose books include An Innocent Millionaire and Truth & Lies in Literature.
JERRY BROTTON is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary University of London. His history of world mapping will be published by Viking next year.
PETER MARSHALL is Professor of History at the University of Warwick. His most recent book is The Reformation: A Very Short Introduction (OUP).
JOHN GRAY’s most recent book is Gray’s Anatomy: Selected Writings (Penguin).
DIANA ATHILL is the author of Somewhere Towards the End, which won the 2008 Costa Book Award for biography.
LEO MCKINSTRY’s books about the Spitfire, the Hurricane and the Lancaster are all published by John Murray.
DAVID WORTH has just completed a novel based on his experiences as a political consultant in Colombia.
MICHAEL HOLMAN’s Dizzy Worms, the last novel in a satirical trilogy set in east Africa, was published in June (Polygon).
RODERICK MATTHEWS i s the author of The Flaws in the Jewel: Challenging the Myths of British India (HarperCollins India).
PAUL BEW’s Ireland: The Politics of Enmity, 1789–2006 is published by OUP.
MICHAEL ARDITTI’s new novel, Jubilate, will be published in February by Arcadia.
WILLIAM PALMER is a novelist and poet. Under the Influence, his study of alcohol and its effects on writers’ lives and work, has just been completed.
PULPIT
BIOGRAPHY
HEAVEN & EARTH
HISTORY
HOME
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STEPHEN VIZINCZEY
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PETER MARSHALL She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth Helen Castor LESLIE MITCHELL Palmerston: A Biography David Brown TIM TZOULIADIS The Invisible Harry Gold: The Man Who Gave the Soviets the Atom Bomb Allen M Hornblum JANE RIDLEY Edith Cavell Diana Souhami RUPERT CHRISTIANSEN Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt Robert Gottlieb MIRA BAR-HILLEL Norman Foster: A Life in Architecture Deyan Sudjic
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JERRY BROTTON Galileo J L Heilbron Galileo: Watcher of the Skies David Wootton TOM FORT Atlantic: A Vast Ocean of a Million Stories Simon Winchester The Wave: In Pursuit of the Oceans’ Greatest Furies Susan Casey TED NIELD The Planet in a Pebble: A Journey into Earth’s Deep History Jan Zalasiewicz JOHN GRIBBIN Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe Roger Penrose The Grand Design: New Answers to the Ultimate Questions of Life Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow
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LESLEY CHAMBERLAIN Crimea: The Last Crusade Orlando Figes ERIC KURLANDER Chronicle of a Downfall: Germany 1929–1939 Leopold Schwarzschild (Ed) Andreas Wesemann M R D FOOT The Second World War: A Military History Gordon Corrigan MATTHEW ADAMS Image Wars: Promoting Kings and Commonwealths in England, 1603-1660 Kevin Sharpe JONATHAN FENBY Passport to Peking: A Very British Mission to Mao’s China Patrick Wright VASILY GROSSMAN Extract from ‘The Road’
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GILLIAN TINDALL Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey Rachel Hewitt ANDREW LYCETT The English Ghost: Spectres Through Time Peter Ackroyd LEO MCKINSTRY Empire of the Clouds: When Britain’s Aircraft Ruled the World James Hamilton-Paterson
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DAVID WORTH Amexica: War Along the Borderline Ed Vulliamy The Last Narco: Hunting El Chapo, The World’s Most Wanted Drug Lord Malcolm Beith
LITERARY REVIEW October 2010
Editor: NANCY SLADEK Deputy Editor: TOM FLEMING Editor-at-Large: JEREMY LEWIS Assistant Editor: JONATHAN BECKMAN Editorial Assistant: ALEXANDER BLASDEL Contributing Editors: MICHAEL BURLEIGH,
SARA WHEELER, PHILIP WOMACK Advertising Manager: TERRY FINNEGAN Classified Advertising: DAVID STURGE
Founding Editor: DR ANNE SMITH Founding Father: AUBERON WAUGH
Cover illustration by Chris Riddell
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