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c o n t e n t s / c o n t r i b u t o r s c h i l dr e n ’s b o ok s 88 Philip Womack f i n s & f u r 90 Tom Fort The Salmon Michael Wigan • G.E.M. Skues Tony Hayter 91 Sam Leith Cat Sense: The Feline Enigma Revealed John Bradshaw • The Big New Yorker Book of Cats f i c t i on 92 Justin Cartwright Double Negative Ivan Vladislavic 93 Elspeth Barker Collected Stories Bernard MacLaverty 94 Malcolm Forbes & Sons David Gilbert 95 Lucian Robinson The Dig Cynan Jones 96 John Sutherland Jeeves and the Wedding Bells Sebastian Faulks • Solo William Boyd 97 Simon Baker Barracuda Christos Tsiolkas 98 James Kidd The Kills Richard House 99 Jonathan Barnes on four historical novels 100Charles Bailey Equilateral Ken Kalfus 100Kate Saunders The Pure Gold Baby Margaret Drabble 101 Hannah Rosefield The Flamethrowers Rachel Kushner 102 Rachel Hore At Break of Day Elizabeth Speller • The Lie Helen Dunmore 103 Sarah A Smith All Change Elizabeth Jane Howard 104 Jessica Mann Crime 106Lucy Popescu Silenced Voices 15 Crossword 38 LR Bookshop This month’s pulpit is written by Lloyd Shepherd. He is the author of two historical supernatural thrillers, The English Monster and The Poisoned Island, both published by Simon & Schuster. His third novel will be published in 2014. David Abulafia is the author of The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean (Penguin, 2011), for which he has recently been awarded one of the inaugural British Academy Medals. He is Professor of Mediterranean History at Cambridge University. Paul Addison is an Honorary Fellow of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. He is the co-editor, with Jeremy A Crang, of Listening to Britain: Home Intelligence Reports on Britain’s Finest Hour, May to September 1940 (2010). Alan Allport is writing a social history of the British Army in the Second World War. Charles Bailey is a freelance writer. Simon Baker is a freelance reviewer. John Banville’s latest novel is Ancient Light. His Philip Marlowe novel, The Black-Eyed Blonde, written under the pen-name Benjamin Black, will be published early next year. Elspeth Barker is a novelist and writer of short stories. Her most recent book is Dog Days (Black Dog Books), a selection of essays and journalism. Jonathan Barnes is the author of two novels, The Somnambulist and The Domino Men. Jonathan Beckman is senior editor of Literary Review. Malcolm Beith is the author of The Last Narco. Piers Brendon’s books include The Decline and Fall of the British Empire and The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s. Eminent Elizabethans was published by Cape last year. Frank Brinkley is an editorial assistant at Literary Review. Andrew Brown wrote about sociobiological controversies in his book The Darwin Wars. Michael Burleigh’s most recent book is Small Wars, Faraway Places: The Genesis of the Modern World 1945–65. Justin Cartwright has won the Whitbread and Hawthornden Prizes. His latest novel is Lion Heart. David Cesarani is completing a book for Macmillan on the fate of the Jews from 1933 to 1949. Rupert Christiansen is opera critic for the Daily Telegraph. Saul David is Professor of War Studies at the University of Buckingham. His latest book is 100 Days to Victory: How the First World War Was Fought and Won. Leanda de Lisle’s most recent book is Tudor: The Family Story. Lesley Downer writes both fiction and non-fiction on Japan. Her books include Geisha: The Secret History of a Vanishing World, The Last Concubine and, most recently, The Samurai’s Daughter. Bill Emmott is a former editor of The Economist and author of several books on Japan, including The Sun Also Sets (1989) and Rivals: How the Power Struggle between China, India and Japan Will Shape the Next Decade (2008). He is now president and co-founder of The Wake Up Foundation, a new non-profit dedicated to raising awareness of the sources of western decline and of what can be done about it. Felipe Fernández-Armesto is the William P Reynolds Professor of History at Notre Dame. Charles Fernyhough’s recent book Pieces of Light: The New Science of Memory was shortlisted for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. His new novel, A Box of Birds, is published by Unbound. Tom Fleming is deputy editor of Literary Review. Malcolm Forbes is a freelance writer. Tom Fort’s most recent book is The A303: Highway to the Sun. Alex Goodall is a Lecturer in History at the University of York. Loyalty and Liberty: American Countersubversion from World War I to the McCarthy Era is out this month. John Gray’s most recent book is The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths (Penguin). Literary Review | d e c e m b e r 2 0 1 3 / j a n u a r y 2 0 1 4 4
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c o n t r i b u t o r s John Gribbin’s latest book, Computing with Quantum Cats, is published by Bantam Press. Christopher Hart’s daily ritual involves an early morning walk, a lot of tea, and no phone, email or internet before 6pm (if at all). Philip Hensher’s new novel, The Emperor Waltz, is published in July 2014. Tim Hilton has been the organiser of many exhibitions and is the author of John Ruskin. Rachel Hore’s latest novel is The Silent Tide (S&S). Maya Jaggi’s cultural journalism and criticism gained her an honorary doctorate from the Open University in 2012. Alan Judd is the former motoring correspondent of The Spectator. His latest novel, Uncommon Enemy, is published by Simon & Schuster. Eric Kaufmann is Professor of Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London, and author of Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? (Profile). Jonathan Keates’s most recent book is The Siege of Venice (Chatto & Windus). John Keay’s Midnight’s Descendants: South Asia from Partition to the Present Day is published in January by William Collins. James Kidd is a freelance arts journalist and Friends Secretary for the Keats–Shelley Memorial Association. Irving Kirsch is Associate Director of the Program in Placebo Studies at the Harvard Medical School. He is the author of The Emperor’s New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth. Adam LeBor is the author of City of Oranges: Arabs and Jews in Jaffa. His latest thriller, The Geneva Option, is published by Telegram Books. Sam Leith is the author of You Talkin’ To Me? Rhetoric From Aristotle to Obama. Jeremy Lewis is currently at work on a biography of David Astor. Edward N Luttwak is the author of The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire and The Rise of China v. the Logic of Security. Jessica Mann’s latest book is Dead Woman Walking (The Cornovia Press). Mark Maslin is Professor of Climatology at UCL and author of Climate: A Very Short Introduction (OUP). Allan Massie’s collection of Spectator columns, Life & Letters, was published last year by Quartet. Frank McLynn, the author of thirty books, has always been a cinephile. Leslie Mitchell is an Emeritus Fellow at University College, Oxford. His interests lie in the high politics of the 18th century and notably in the history of the Whig party. Lucy Moore’s Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France came out in 2006. Caroline Moorehead’s Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France is out in 2014. Samuel Moyn teaches European history at Columbia University. Human Rights and the Uses of History will be published in the spring. Jay Parini has written some twenty books, including biographies of Steinbeck, Frost and Faulkner. His most recent novel is The Passages of Herman Melville (Canongate). Seamus Perry is author most recently of Browning at Balliol (2012), a collaboration with Michael Meredith. Daniel Pick is a psychoanalyst, fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and Professor of History at Birkbeck College. His most recent book is The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Hitler, Hess and the Analysts (OUP, 2012). Lucy Popescu is the author of The Good Tourist (Arcadia Books). Bernard Porter is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of Newcastle. He has written extensively on British imperial history, including The Lion’s Share: A History of British Imperialism from 1850 to the Present. Peter Raby’s biography of Wallace was published in 2001 (Chatto & Windus/Princeton University Press). He is a Fellow Emeritus of Homerton College, Cambridge. Lucian Robinson is a freelance writer and reviewer. Hannah Rosefield is assistant editor of the Jewish Quarterly. She also works for the British Library researching its 19th-century collections. Dominic Sandbrook’s television series on the history of science fiction will be shown on BBC2 in 2014. Kate Saunders’s The Whizz-Pop Chocolate Shop is published by Marion Lloyd Books. Charles Shaar Murray’s biographies of John Lee Hooker and Jimi Hendrix are published by Canongate. Elif Shafak is a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. She is the author of eight novels, including The Bastard of Istanbul, The Forty Rules of Love and Honour. Joan Smith is co-chair of the Mayor of London’s Violence Against Women and Girls Panel. Her latest book is The Public Woman. Sarah A Smith is a freelance writer. Frances Spalding’s latest book, Prunella Clough: regions unmapped, is published by Lund Humphries. James Stourton is writing the authorised biography of Kenneth Clark. Andrea Stuart is currently a Writer in Residence at Kingston University. Her third and latest book Sugar in the Blood: One Family’s Story of Slavery and Empire was published in the UK by Portobello Books in 2012 and in the US by Knopf last January. It was shortlisted both for the 2013 BOCAS Literary Prize and the Spears Book Award. John Sutherland’s A Little History of Literature has just been published by Yale University Press. Bharat Tandon teaches at the University of East Anglia. His annotated edition of Emma was published by Harvard University Press last year, and he was one of the judges for the 2012 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. He is currently coediting a collection of essays on the literary history of the New Yorker. Colin Tudge is co-founder of the Campaign for Real Farming and the College for Enlightened Agriculture. His latest book, Why Genes Are Not Selfish and People Are Nice, was reviewed in these pages in July 2013. John Walsh is a columnist for The Independent. Odd Arne Westad teaches international history at LSE. His most recent book is Restless Empire: China and the World since 1750. Sara Wheeler’s most recent book is O My America! Second Acts in a New World. Frances Wilson is the author of Literary Seductions: Compulsive Writers and Diverted Readers (Faber). She is currently writing a book about Thomas De Quincey. Philip Womack’s third children’s book, The Darkening Path, will be published in 2014. d e c e m b e r 2 0 1 3 / j a n u a r y 2 0 1 4 | Literary Review 5

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c o n t e n t s / c o n t r i b u t o r s c h i l dr e n ’s b o ok s 88 Philip Womack f i n s & f u r 90 Tom Fort

The Salmon Michael Wigan • G.E.M. Skues Tony Hayter 91 Sam Leith

Cat Sense: The Feline Enigma Revealed John Bradshaw • The Big New Yorker Book of Cats f i c t i on 92 Justin Cartwright Double Negative Ivan Vladislavic 93 Elspeth Barker Collected Stories Bernard MacLaverty 94 Malcolm Forbes & Sons David Gilbert 95 Lucian Robinson The Dig Cynan Jones 96 John Sutherland

Jeeves and the Wedding Bells Sebastian Faulks • Solo William Boyd

97 Simon Baker Barracuda Christos Tsiolkas 98 James Kidd The Kills Richard House 99 Jonathan Barnes on four historical novels 100Charles Bailey Equilateral Ken Kalfus 100Kate Saunders The Pure Gold Baby Margaret Drabble 101 Hannah Rosefield The Flamethrowers Rachel Kushner 102 Rachel Hore

At Break of Day Elizabeth Speller • The Lie Helen Dunmore 103 Sarah A Smith All Change Elizabeth Jane Howard

104 Jessica Mann Crime 106Lucy Popescu Silenced Voices 15 Crossword 38 LR Bookshop

This month’s pulpit is written by Lloyd Shepherd. He is the author of two historical supernatural thrillers, The English Monster and The Poisoned Island, both published by Simon & Schuster. His third novel will be published in 2014.

David Abulafia is the author of The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean (Penguin, 2011), for which he has recently been awarded one of the inaugural British Academy Medals. He is Professor of Mediterranean History at Cambridge University.

Paul Addison is an Honorary Fellow of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. He is the co-editor, with Jeremy A Crang, of Listening to Britain: Home Intelligence Reports on Britain’s Finest Hour, May to September 1940 (2010).

Alan Allport is writing a social history of the British Army in the Second World War.

Charles Bailey is a freelance writer.

Simon Baker is a freelance reviewer.

John Banville’s latest novel is Ancient Light. His Philip Marlowe novel, The Black-Eyed Blonde, written under the pen-name Benjamin Black, will be published early next year.

Elspeth Barker is a novelist and writer of short stories. Her most recent book is Dog Days (Black Dog Books), a selection of essays and journalism.

Jonathan Barnes is the author of two novels, The Somnambulist and The Domino Men.

Jonathan Beckman is senior editor of Literary Review.

Malcolm Beith is the author of The Last Narco.

Piers Brendon’s books include The Decline and Fall of the British Empire and The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s. Eminent Elizabethans was published by Cape last year.

Frank Brinkley is an editorial assistant at Literary Review.

Andrew Brown wrote about sociobiological controversies in his book The Darwin Wars.

Michael Burleigh’s most recent book is Small Wars, Faraway Places: The Genesis of the Modern World 1945–65.

Justin Cartwright has won the Whitbread and Hawthornden Prizes. His latest novel is Lion Heart.

David Cesarani is completing a book for Macmillan on the fate of the Jews from 1933 to 1949.

Rupert Christiansen is opera critic for the Daily Telegraph.

Saul David is Professor of War Studies at the University of Buckingham. His latest book is 100 Days to Victory: How the First World War Was Fought and Won.

Leanda de Lisle’s most recent book is Tudor: The Family Story.

Lesley Downer writes both fiction and non-fiction on Japan. Her books include Geisha: The Secret History of a Vanishing World, The Last Concubine and, most recently, The Samurai’s Daughter.

Bill Emmott is a former editor of The Economist and author of several books on Japan, including The Sun Also Sets (1989) and Rivals: How the Power Struggle between China, India and Japan Will Shape the Next Decade (2008). He is now president and co-founder of The Wake Up Foundation, a new non-profit dedicated to raising awareness of the sources of western decline and of what can be done about it.

Felipe Fernández-Armesto is the William P Reynolds Professor of History at Notre Dame.

Charles Fernyhough’s recent book Pieces of Light: The New Science of Memory was shortlisted for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. His new novel, A Box of Birds, is published by Unbound.

Tom Fleming is deputy editor of Literary Review.

Malcolm Forbes is a freelance writer.

Tom Fort’s most recent book is The A303: Highway to the Sun.

Alex Goodall is a Lecturer in History at the University of York. Loyalty and Liberty: American Countersubversion from World War I to the McCarthy Era is out this month.

John Gray’s most recent book is The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths (Penguin).

Literary Review | d e c e m b e r 2 0 1 3 / j a n u a r y 2 0 1 4 4

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