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june 2019 • issue 476
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diary 1 Joanna Kavenna
biography 6 Lucy Lethbridge
The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective: Secrets & Lies in the Golden Age of Crime Susannah Stapleton 7 Alwyn W Turner
The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell’s 1984 Dorian Lynskey 9 Tom Holland
In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny Daisy Dunn 10 Nicholas Roe
The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths & Their Year of Marvels Adam Nicolson
power & money 12 Richard V Reeves
A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism Adam Gopnik 13 Howard Davies
The Anxious Triumph: A Global History of Capitalism, 1860–1914 Donald Sassoon 14 Michael Burleigh
The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth Michael Mandelbaum
high life 16 Frances Wilson
Noble Savages: The Olivier Sisters – Four Lives in Seven Fragments Sarah Watling 17 Selina Hastings
Chanel’s Riviera: Life, Love & the Struggle for Survival on the Côte d ’Azur, 1930–1944 Anne de Courcy 18 Tim Richardson
A Lesson in Art & Life: The Colourful World of Cedric Morris & Arthur Lett-Haines Hugh St Clair
high brow 20 Tom Stern
Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard Clare Carlisle 22 Jane O’Grady
Witcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English Jonathan Rée 24 Philipp Blom
Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely Andrew S Curran 25 Helena Rosenblatt
The Secular Enlightenment Margaret C Jacob
