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contributors Adam Ahmed-Mekky is a history undergraduate at the LSE. Alan Allport is writing the sequel to his 2020 book Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War 1938-1941 (Profile). Simon Baker is a f reelance writer. Thomas Blaikie is manners and etiquette correspondent at The Lady. Michael Burleigh is a senior fellow at LSE Ideas. Richard Canning’s critical biography of Ronald Firbank is forthcoming f rom Harvard University Press. Robert Chandler’s translations f rom Russian include works by Alexander Pushkin, Te , Andrey Platonov and Vasily Grossman. He has written a short biography of Pushkin. Rupert Christiansen’s most recent book, Diaghilev’s Empire: How the Ballets Russes Enthralled the World, is published by Faber. Norma Clarke is writing a sequel to her family memoir, Not Speaking . Natasha Cooper, who also writes as N J Cooper, is a crime writer and critic. Mark Cornwall is currently writing a history of treason in the late Habsburg Empire. Ian Critchley is a f reelance writer. Richard Davenport-Hines is seeking a publisher for his recently completed anthology of poetry and prose entitled Picture Perfect. Michael Delgado works at Literary Review. Adam Douglas is a rare-books specialist at Peter Harrington. Alice Dunn is a writer and journalist. Charles Elliott is a writer and retired book editor. Suzi Feay is a literary journalist, a member of the Authors’ Club, and president of the Critics’ Circle. Claudia FitzHerbert was until recently books editor at The Oldie. James Fleming is the author of five novels, all published by Jonathan Cape. He is currently editor of The Book Collector. Mary Fulbrook is Professor of German History at UCL and author of the Wolfson Prize-winning Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice (OUP). Emma Garman is a writer and critic living in Brighton. Patrick Graney is a f reelance writer. Tiffany Jenkins is the author of Keeping Their Marbles: How the Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums – And Why They Should Stay There and Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections: The Crisis of Cultural Authority. Stephen Knight’s most recent collection is Drizzle Mizzle Downpour Deluge . A J Lees’s latest book, Brainspotting: Adventures in Neurology, is published by Notting Hill Editions. Lucy Lethbridge’s most recent book, Tourists: How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves, is published by Bloomsbury. Alberto Manguel is director of Espaço Atlântida in Lisbon. Zareer Masani is an author and historian. Keith Miller works at The Telegraph. Caroline Moorehead’s Mussolini’s Daughter: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe was published in October. Adrian Nathan West is a literary translator and author of the novel My Father’s Diet . His latest translation is of Hermann Burger’s Brenner. Sean O’Brien’s most recent collection of poems, Embark, appeared in 2022. He is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University. Bijan Omrani is the author of Caesar’s Footprints: Journeys to Roman Gaul, and codirector of the Shute Literary Festival. Francesca Peacock is a f reelance art and books writer. Lucy Popescu is the editor of the refugee anthologies A Country of Refuge and A Country to Call Home. Alexander Raubo studied philosophy at the LSE and Cambridge. He lives and works in London. Peter Riddell was Commissioner for Public Appointments f rom 2016 to 2021. He is an honorary professor at the Constitution Unit at UCL. Mark Rowlands is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Miami. He is the author of twenty-one books, including the international bestseller The Philosopher and the Wolf. Adam Sisman is the author of John le Carré: The Biography (Bloomsbury). Antony Spawforth’s What the Greeks Did for Us will be published in March by Yale University Press. Jonathan Sumption is a historian and former justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. Colin Thubron’s most recent book, The Amur River: Between Russia and China, is published by Chatto & Windus. Edward Vallance is writing a new history of the trial and execution of Charles I very slowly. Anna Van Dyk is a South Af rican-born writer living in London. She is currently working on her debut novel. Salley Vickers is a former university lecturer and psychoanalyst. She now writes full time. Her latest novel, The Gardener, is published by Penguin. Stephen Vines ’s l a t e s t b o o k i s Defying the Dragon: Hong Kong and the World ’s Largest Dictatorship (Hurst). He spent more than three decades in Hong Kong as a journalist before making a rapid, forced departure in 2021. Jeffrey Wasserstrom is Chancellor’s Professor of History at UC Ir vine and will spend this spring in London as a visiting professor at Birkbeck College. His most recent books are, as author, Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink (2020) and, as editor, The Oxford History of Modern China (2022). Literary Review | february 2023 4

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Adam Ahmed-Mekky is a history undergraduate at the LSE. Alan Allport is writing the sequel to his 2020 book Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War 1938-1941 (Profile). Simon Baker is a f reelance writer. Thomas Blaikie is manners and etiquette correspondent at The Lady. Michael Burleigh is a senior fellow at LSE Ideas. Richard Canning’s critical biography of Ronald Firbank is forthcoming f rom Harvard University Press. Robert Chandler’s translations f rom Russian include works by Alexander Pushkin, Te , Andrey Platonov and Vasily Grossman. He has written a short biography of Pushkin. Rupert Christiansen’s most recent book, Diaghilev’s Empire: How the Ballets Russes Enthralled the World, is published by Faber. Norma Clarke is writing a sequel to her family memoir, Not Speaking . Natasha Cooper, who also writes as N J Cooper, is a crime writer and critic. Mark Cornwall is currently writing a history of treason in the late Habsburg Empire. Ian Critchley is a f reelance writer. Richard Davenport-Hines is seeking a publisher for his recently completed anthology of poetry and prose entitled Picture Perfect. Michael Delgado works at Literary Review. Adam Douglas is a rare-books specialist at Peter Harrington. Alice Dunn is a writer and journalist. Charles Elliott is a writer and retired book editor. Suzi Feay is a literary journalist, a member of the Authors’ Club, and president of the Critics’ Circle. Claudia FitzHerbert was until recently books editor at The Oldie. James Fleming is the author of five novels, all published by Jonathan Cape. He is currently editor of The Book Collector.

Mary Fulbrook is Professor of German History at UCL and author of the Wolfson Prize-winning Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice (OUP). Emma Garman is a writer and critic living in Brighton. Patrick Graney is a f reelance writer. Tiffany Jenkins is the author of Keeping Their Marbles: How the Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums – And Why They Should Stay There and Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections: The Crisis of Cultural Authority. Stephen Knight’s most recent collection is Drizzle Mizzle Downpour Deluge . A J Lees’s latest book, Brainspotting: Adventures in Neurology, is published by Notting Hill Editions. Lucy Lethbridge’s most recent book, Tourists: How the British Went Abroad to Find Themselves, is published by Bloomsbury. Alberto Manguel is director of Espaço Atlântida in Lisbon. Zareer Masani is an author and historian. Keith Miller works at The Telegraph. Caroline Moorehead’s Mussolini’s Daughter: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe was published in October. Adrian Nathan West is a literary translator and author of the novel My Father’s Diet . His latest translation is of Hermann Burger’s Brenner. Sean O’Brien’s most recent collection of poems, Embark, appeared in 2022. He is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University. Bijan Omrani is the author of Caesar’s Footprints: Journeys to Roman Gaul, and codirector of the Shute Literary Festival.

Francesca Peacock is a f reelance art and books writer. Lucy Popescu is the editor of the refugee anthologies A Country of Refuge and A Country to Call Home. Alexander Raubo studied philosophy at the LSE and Cambridge. He lives and works in London. Peter Riddell was Commissioner for Public Appointments f rom 2016 to 2021. He is an honorary professor at the Constitution Unit at UCL. Mark Rowlands is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Miami. He is the author of twenty-one books, including the international bestseller The Philosopher and the Wolf. Adam Sisman is the author of John le Carré: The Biography (Bloomsbury). Antony Spawforth’s What the Greeks Did for Us will be published in March by Yale University Press. Jonathan Sumption is a historian and former justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. Colin Thubron’s most recent book, The Amur River: Between Russia and China, is published by Chatto & Windus. Edward Vallance is writing a new history of the trial and execution of Charles I very slowly. Anna Van Dyk is a South Af rican-born writer living in London. She is currently working on her debut novel. Salley Vickers is a former university lecturer and psychoanalyst. She now writes full time. Her latest novel, The Gardener, is published by Penguin. Stephen Vines ’s l a t e s t b o o k i s Defying the Dragon: Hong Kong and the World ’s Largest Dictatorship (Hurst). He spent more than three decades in Hong Kong as a journalist before making a rapid, forced departure in 2021. Jeffrey Wasserstrom is Chancellor’s Professor of History at UC Ir vine and will spend this spring in London as a visiting professor at Birkbeck College. His most recent books are, as author, Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink (2020) and, as editor, The Oxford History of Modern China (2022).

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