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Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time Penelope Lively 27 Jeremy Lewis

There and Then: Personal Terms 6 Frederic Raphael 27 Andrew Brown

An Appetite for Wonder Richard Dawkins mus i c & a rt 28 Gulliver Ralston

Music in the Castle of Heaven: A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach John Eliot Gardiner 29 Michael Tanner

Richard Wagner: A Life in Music Martin Geck 30 Rupert Christiansen

The Leonard Bernstein Letters (ed) Nigel Simeone 32 Charles Shaar Murray

Johnny Cash: The Life Robert Hilburn 34 James Hall

Michelangelo Martin Gayford 35 Aaron Rosen

A Century of Israeli Art Yigal Zalmona l i t e r a r y l i v e s 37 Seamus Perry

The Vampyre Family: Passion, Envy and the Curse of Byron Andrew McConnell Stott 38 Ian Sansom

Salinger David Shields & Shane Salerno 41 Mark Bostridge

Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life Hermione Lee 42 David Collard

Rhys Davies: A Writer’s Life Meic Stephens g e n e r a l 45 Matthew Green

Snake Dance: Journeys Beneath a Nuclear Sky Patrick Marnham 46 Jonathan Mirsky

No Joke: Making Jewish Humor Ruth R Wisse 47 Anne Sebba

Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties Rachel Cooke 49 Jonathan Keates

A History of the French in London: Liberty, Equality, Opportunity (Edd) Debra Kelly & Martyn Cornick 51 Adrian Tinniswood

Treasure Neverland: Real and Imaginary Pirates Neil Rennie

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The Building of England: How the History of England has Shaped our Buildings Simon Thurley 53 Robert Irwin

Homer’s Turk: How Classics Shaped Ideas of the East Jerry Toner 55 William Doino Jr

Can We Save the Catholic Church? Hans Küng 56 Sumit Paul-Choudhury

Computing with Quantum Cats John Gribbin l e t t e r f r om pa l e st i n e 57 Maya Jaggi st ua rt s e n s i b i l i t i e s 59 David Gelber

Charles I and the Aristocracy, 1625-1642 Richard Cust 60 Jerry Brotton

The King’s Pictures Francis Haskell 61 Tim Harris

Rebranding Rule: The Restoration and Revolution Monarchy, 1660-1714 Kevin Sharpe p o e t r y 64 Peter Scupham on three new volumes f i c t i on 65 Michael Arditti The Two Hotel Francforts David Leavitt 66 Joan Smith Bridget Jones: Mad about The Boy Helen Fielding 67 James Kidd Subtle Bodies Norman Rush 68 Simon Hammond on three Irish debuts 69 John Dugdale The Circle Dave Eggers 70 Philip Womack Hello and Goodbye Patrick McCabe 70 Malcolm Forbes Back to Back Julia Franck 71 Nick Hayes The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil Stephen Collins 72 Hamid Ismailov Avelum Otar Chiladze 73 Christena Appleyard Someone Alice McDermott

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