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contents july 2022 • issue 509 Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Assistant Editor David Gelber Contributing Editors Jonathan Beckman Michael Burleigh • Sara Wheeler • Philip Womack Editorial & Marketing Assistant Michael Delgado Marketing Manager Constance Watson Advertising Manager Terry Finnegan Classified Advertising David Sturge Founding Editor Dr Anne Smith Cover Illustration Chris Riddell The Literary Review, incorporating Quarto, is published monthly from: 44 Lexington Street, London W1F 0LW • ISSN 0144 4360 Tel: 020 7437 9392 • editorial@literaryreview.co.uk letters@literaryreview.co.uk All subscription enquiries and changes of address to: Literary Review Subscriptions, The Maltings, West Street, Bourne, Lincolnshire PE10 9PH • Tel: +44 (0) 1778 395 165 subscriptions@warnersgroup.co.uk All advertising enquiries to: Terry Finnegan, Literary Review, 44 Lexington Street, London W1F 0LW • Tel: 020 7437 9392 terry@literaryreview.co.uk • david.sturge@btopenworld.com Print by: CPUK Print Publishing Ltd, www.cp-uk.co.uk Distributed to newsagents worldwide by: Seymour Distribution Ltd • Tel: 020 7429 4000 Distributed to bookshops by: Central Books, 99 Wallis Road, London E9 5LN • Tel: 020 8986 4854 Designed by Cog Design Literary Review is set in Adobe Caslon and Janet. The latter is a digitisation of an engraved typeface designed by the artist and typographer Reynolds Stone, and named after his wife. Literary Review | july 2022 2 diary 1 Frances Wilson history 5 Donald Rayfield Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 Antony Beevor 7 Rana Mitter The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam Christopher Goscha 9 Claudia Gold Two Houses, Two Kingdoms: A History of France and England, 1100–1300 Catherine Hanley 10 Nicholas Vincent Empires of the Normans: Makers of Europe, Conquerors of Asia Levi Roach money & power 12 Piers Brendon Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy Henry Kissinger 13 Howard Davies The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest Edward Chancellor 14 Charles Clarke Labour’s Civil Wars: How Infighting Has Kept the Left from Power (and What Can Be Done About It) Patrick Diamond & Giles Radice • The Starmer Project: A Journey to the Right Oliver Eagleton 16 Martin Vander Weyer The Missing Cryptoqueen Jamie Bartlett biography & memoir 17 Edward Weech Dream-Child: A Life of Charles Lamb Eric G Wilson 19 Ben Hutchinson Rilke: The Last Inward Man Lesley Chamberlain 20 Frances Cairncross Agent Twister Philip Augar & Keely Winstone 21 Christopher Silvester Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker’s Life James Curtis 22 Mathew Lyons Landscapes of Silence: From Childhood to the Arctic Hugh Brody 23 Kevin Power Original Sins: A Memoir Matt Rowland Hill

contents foreign parts 24 Barnaby Crowcroft Inside Qatar: Hidden Stories from One of the Richest Nations on Earth John McManus 26 Mark Galeotti Putin: His Life and Times Philip Short 27 Stephen Vines The Hong Kong Diaries Chris Patten the atomic age 29 Philip Thomas Atoms and Ashes: From Bikini Atoll to Fukushima Serhii Plokhy 31 John Gribbin Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass Frank Close art & music 32 Norma Clarke A Revolution on Canvas: The Rise of Women Artists in London and Paris, 1760-1830 Paris A Spies-Gans 33 Tanya Harrod How We Might Live: At Home with Jane and William Morris Suzanne Fagence Cooper 35 Igor Toronyi-Lalic Sound within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century Kate Molleson magic & folklore 36 Diane Purkiss The Penguin Book of Dragons Scott G Bruce (ed) 38 Alec Ryrie Magic in Merlin’s Realm: A History of Occult Politics in Britain Francis Young 39 George Morris Queens of the Wild: Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe – An Investigation Ronald Hutton general 41 Alex von Tunzelmann The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells Sarah Churchwell 43 Joan Smith The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century Louise Perry 44 Gordon Marsden Northerners: A History Brian Groom 46 Tim Richardson Napoleon’s Garden Island: Lost and Old Gardens of St Helena, South Atlantic Ocean Donal P McCracken 47 Nigel Andrew An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us Ed Yong cinema 48 Peter Conrad The Big City Satyajit Ray (dir) fiction 49 Ian Critchley The War for Gloria Atticus Lish 50 Clare Clark Dark Earth Rebecca Stott 51 Michael Eaude Goodbye, Ramona Montserrat Roig 52 James Purdon Stretto David Wheatley 53 J S Barnes Venomous Lumpsucker Ned Beauman 54 Claudia FitzHerbert Amy & Lan Sadie Jones children’s books 54 Philip Womack fiction in brief 56 Briefly, a Delicious Life Nell Stevens • The Twilight World Werner Herzog • After Sappho Selby Wynn Schwartz • The Last Blade Priest W P Wiles crime 58 Natasha Cooper silenced voices 60 Lucy Popescu bookends 64 Adam Douglas Unveiling the Dark Lady of Trieste competition 45 Fergus Butler-Gallie sets a monthly challenge 15 LR Bookshop 30 Letters 40 Crossword july 2022 | Literary Review 3

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contents foreign parts 24 Barnaby Crowcroft

Inside Qatar: Hidden Stories from One of the Richest Nations on Earth John McManus 26 Mark Galeotti

Putin: His Life and Times Philip Short 27 Stephen Vines

The Hong Kong Diaries Chris Patten the atomic age 29 Philip Thomas

Atoms and Ashes: From Bikini Atoll to Fukushima Serhii Plokhy 31 John Gribbin

Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass Frank Close art & music 32 Norma Clarke

A Revolution on Canvas: The Rise of Women Artists in London and Paris, 1760-1830 Paris A Spies-Gans 33 Tanya Harrod

How We Might Live: At Home with Jane and William Morris Suzanne Fagence Cooper 35 Igor Toronyi-Lalic

Sound within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century Kate Molleson magic & folklore 36 Diane Purkiss

The Penguin Book of Dragons Scott G Bruce (ed) 38 Alec Ryrie

Magic in Merlin’s Realm: A History of Occult Politics in Britain Francis Young 39 George Morris

Queens of the Wild: Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe – An Investigation Ronald Hutton general 41 Alex von Tunzelmann

The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells Sarah Churchwell 43 Joan Smith

The Case Against the Sexual Revolution: A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century Louise Perry 44 Gordon Marsden

Northerners: A History Brian Groom

46 Tim Richardson

Napoleon’s Garden Island: Lost and Old Gardens of St Helena, South Atlantic Ocean Donal P McCracken 47 Nigel Andrew

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us Ed Yong cinema 48 Peter Conrad

The Big City Satyajit Ray (dir)

fiction 49 Ian Critchley

The War for Gloria Atticus Lish 50 Clare Clark

Dark Earth Rebecca Stott 51 Michael Eaude

Goodbye, Ramona Montserrat Roig 52 James Purdon

Stretto David Wheatley 53 J S Barnes

Venomous Lumpsucker Ned Beauman 54 Claudia FitzHerbert

Amy & Lan Sadie Jones children’s books 54 Philip Womack fiction in brief 56 Briefly, a Delicious Life Nell Stevens • The Twilight World

Werner Herzog • After Sappho Selby Wynn Schwartz • The Last Blade Priest W P Wiles crime 58 Natasha Cooper silenced voices 60 Lucy Popescu bookends 64 Adam Douglas Unveiling the Dark Lady of Trieste competition 45 Fergus Butler-Gallie sets a monthly challenge

15 LR Bookshop 30 Letters 40 Crossword july 2022 | Literary Review 3

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