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22 Philip Parker

The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the Globe – & Globalization Began 23 Nicholas Vincent

Henry III: The Rise to Power & Personal Rule 1207–1258 David Carpenter 25 Bijan Omrani

Virtue Politics: Soulcraft & Statecraft in Renaissance Italy 26 Judith Flanders

Bread Winner: An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy Emma Griffin 27 R J W Evans

From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe John Connelly

biography & memoir 30 David Wheatley

What is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life 31 Jane O’Grady

Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers 32 Rupert Christiansen

Poulenc: A Biography Poulenc: The Life in the Songs Graham Johnson 34 Lucy Lethbridge

The Mystery of Charles Dickens 35 Frederic Raphael

Signatures: Literary Encounters of a Lifetime

general 36 Piers Brendon

The China Journals: Ideology & Intrigue in the 1960s 37 Laurence Kilpatrick

Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber Susan Fowler Uncanny Valley Anna Weiner 39 Sophie Duncan

Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life 40 Andrew Lycett

Indian Sun: The Life & Music of Ravi Shankar

41 Allan Massie

A Schoolmaster’s War: Harry Rée, British Agent in the French Resistance 42 Seán Williams

Ghosts of the Belle Epoque: The History of the Grand Hôtel et des Palmes, Palermo 43 Norma Clarke

A People’s History of Tennis David Berry

cinema 44 Peter Conrad

The Flavour of Green Tea over Rice Yasujirō

short story 45 Bette Howland ‘Public Facilities’

fiction 54 Lucian Robinson

Michael Kohlhaas 55 Anthony Cummins

Magic Mobile Michael Frayn 56 Michael Eaude

Rolling Fields David Trueba 57 Amanda Craig

The Good, the Bad and the Little Bit Stupid 58 Lilian Pizzichini

Lampedusa Steven Price

silenced voices 59 Lucy Popescu on Elchin Mammad

crime 60 Natasha Cooper on seven new novels

bookends 64 Dennis Duncan on Notes & Queries

39 LR Bookshop | 58 Letters to the editor | 24 Crossword

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