Contents

From the Editors The Paris Effect • LAURA FREEMAN

Nancy Mitford’s Parisian novels

A Leap into the Light • DEREK JOHNS

Jan Morris, Conundrum Commons People • ROWENA MACDONALD

Philip Hensher, Kitchen Venom

A Perfect Electrometer • ROGER HUDSON

The Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth

In the Eye of the Storm • POSY FALLOWFIELD

Richard Hughes, In Hazard

Springtime Reflections • CHRIS SAUNDERS

Edward Thomas, In Pursuit of Spring

An Unusual Lexicographer • ANN KENNEDY SMITH

Robert Burchfield, The Spoken Word

Just Staying • jonathan law

The writings of Alistair MacLeod

The Hunt for Hitler • ADAM SISMAN

Hugh Trevor-Roper, The Last Days of Hitler

Man of Many Lives • MICHAEL HOLROYD

Hugh Kingsmill, Frank Harris

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