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FEL IPE FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO Bering: The R~< ss iart Discovery of America Orc utt Frost ANDIUW TAYLOR Over the Edge of th e World: Magelfan.'s Terrifying Circumnavigat ion of th e G lobe La urence Bergreen MATT HE W LEEM ING Du el in th e Snows: The Tr~ 40 41 42 AID AN HAR TLEY Th e Du s t Diaries Ow e n Sheers J ONATHAN MIR SKY J es us in Beijing: H ow Christian i ty is Tranforming China and Changing the G loba l Bal ance of C l1i na David Aikman MI C HAEL j ACOBS The Alhambra Robert lr win 43 44 46 47 48 49 DENNIS SEWELL How Mu1nbo-jrHnb o Conquered the World: A Short Hi story of Modem Delusions Fran c i s Wheen A C GRAYLING H eloise and Abelard: A Tw elfth - Century L ove Story James Burge S AM LEITH What We Lo s t: A Story of My Father's Childhoo d Da l e Pe c k CHR ISTO PHER. 0NDAATJE R eve lations Diane Arbus CHARLIE CAMPBELL The Rise of the I ndian Rope Tri ck: The Biography of a L ege nd P e t er Lamont SH ER. IDAN M OR LEY National Service: Diary of a D ecade Ri c hard Eyre FICTION LETTERS CRIME AUDIOBOOK POETRY COMPETITION LR CROSSWORD LRBOOKSHOP 50 51 52 53 53 54 55 56 57 59 60 61 62 25 64 ALAN RAFFER. TY Oracle Night Paul Au ste r Collected Pro se: Autobiographical Writings, Tm e Stories, C ritical Essays, Prefaces an d Collaborat ions wit h Art ists P a ul Au s t er J O HN D uGDALE The Early Stories 1953 - 1975 J ohn Updik e P ETER STRAUS Old School Tobias Wolff CHR ISTOP HER H ART Dr Mukti and Oth er Tales of Woe Will Self M ADELE INE MI NSON My Fellow Skin Erwin Morti e r ANDREW BARROW S now leg Ni cho l as Sh a k es pear e AMANDA CRAIG These Foo li sh Things Debora h Moggac h j OANNA HI NES The Amateur Marriage Anne Tyler LUCY B ERESFORD ON FIR. ST NOVELS PHILIP 0AKES SUSAN CROSLAND PAMEL A NORR IS spent many h appy h ou r s as a c hild a t th e Ou lton Park motor ra cing track in C h es hir e. Stirling M oss once waved to her, perhaps the day he won the Internatio n al Go ld Cup in hi s Maserati, just ahead of the equally legendary Mike H awthorn in a Lancia.
A N WILSON's most recent book, I ris M11rdoch as I K11ew Her , i s published by Hutchin so n.
MI CHAEL J ACOBS is a writ er, a rt hi st o ri an, and Senior H onorary R esea rc h Fe ll ow at t he H ispanics Department at G lasgow University. His most recent book, -n.e Faclory of Light, is published by J o hn Murray.
ALLAN MASSIE's Ca/ig 11/a i s avai lab le from Sceptre.
FELIPE FERNANDEZ-ARMESTO is a Professorial Fellow of Queen M ary, Univers ity of London.
ANNE SOMERSET is the a uth o r of Eliz abet h I (Phoe nix Press). Her most recent book, Th e Affair of the Poiso 11 s, is published by Weidenfeld & Nico lson.
R UPER T CHRISTIANSEN is the aut h or of The Visitors a nd Paris Babylo11, both pub lished by Pimli co. He is ope r a c riti c a nd an a rt s columnist fo r the Daily Telegraph.
AIDAN H ARTLEY 's The Zanzibar Chest is available from HarperCollins.
CATHER INE PETERS has written biograp hi es of seve ral nin e teen th ce ntur y a uthors , including Thackeray and Wilkie Collins.
AN011._EW TAYLOR's b iogra phy of M ercato r wi ll be publish ed in Ju ne.
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