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21 Roger Kimball

Norman Mailer: A Double Life J Michael Lennon 22 Paul Johnson

Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World Leo Damrosch f or e i g n pa rts 23 Piers Brendon

Tibet: An Unfinished Story Lezlee Brown Halper & Stefan Halper 24 Bernard Porter

The Almost Nearly Perfect People: The Truth About the Nordic Miracle Michael Booth 25 Charles Shaar Murray

Inside the Dream Palace: The Life & Times of New York’s Legendary Chelsea Hotel Sherill Tippins a rt & a r c h i t e c t u r e 27 Frances Spalding

Dear Winifred: Christopher Wood Letters to Winifred & Ben Nicholson 1926–1930 (ed) Anne Goodchild • Ben Nicholson, Winifred Nicholson, Christopher Wood, Alfred Wallis, William Staite Murray: Art & Life 1920–1931 Jovan Nicholson 28 Tanya Harrod

Whistler: A Life for Art’s Sake Daniel E Sutherland 30 David Collard

Ian Nairn: Words in Place (edd) Gillian Darley & David McKie i mp e r i a l c h i na 31 Jonathan Mirsky

Emperor Huizong Patricia Buckley Ebrey 32 Jerry Brotton

Mr Selden’s Map of China: The Spice Trade, a Lost Chart & the South China Sea Timothy Brook g e n e r a l 34 Matthew Green

Thank You for Your Service David Finkel 35 John Gray

Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism Larry Siedentop 38 David Nirenberg

Racisms: From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century Francisco Bethencourt 40 Alexander Maitland

Jumbo: The Unauthorised Biography of a Victorian Sensation John Sutherland

41 Richard Overy

Strategy: A History Lawrence Freedman 42 Kevin Jackson

The Story of Black John Harvey • Blue Mythologies: Reflections on a Colour Carol Mavor 44 Simon Heffer

Irrepressible Adventures with Britannia: Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain (ed) Wm Roger Louis 45 Stuart Kelly

Acts of Union and Acts of Disunion Linda Colley • Bannockburns: Scottish Independence & Literary Imagination, 1314-2014 Robert Crawford 47 Christopher Bray

The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets Simon Singh l e t t e r f r om c r oat i a 48 Maya Jaggi f i c t i on 51 D J Taylor

The Last Word Hanif Kureishi 52 Keith Miller

Dissident Gardens Jonathan Lethem 53 Allan Massie

The Foundling Boy Michel Déon 54 Ben Hutchinson

Tales from the Underworld Hans Fallada 55 Memphis Barker on four debut novels 56 Lucian Robinson

In the Wolf ’s Mouth Adam Foulds 57 Laura Gallagher

Mrs Hemingway Naomi Wood 58 Simon Baker

The Thing About December Donal Ryan 58 Jonathan McAloon

The Free Willy Vlautin 59 Francesca Wade

Carthage Joyce Carol Oates

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