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c o n t e n t s f e b r ua r y 2 0 1 4 • i s s u e 4 1 7 Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Editor-at-Large Jeremy Lewis Senior Editor Jonathan Beckman Chief Editorial Assistant Frank Brinkley Editorial Assistants David Gelber • Tom Williams Contributing Editors Michael Burleigh Sara Wheeler • Philip Womack Advertising Manager Terry Finnegan Classified Advertising David Sturge Founding Father Auberon Waugh Cover Illustration Chris Riddell The Literary Review, incorporating Quarto, is published monthly from: 44 Lexington Street, London W1F 0LW • Tel: 020 7437 9392 Fax: 020 7734 1844 • ISSN 0144 4360 © All subscription enquiries and changes of address to: Literary Review Subscriptions, FREEPOST RSJB-SUGY-ZKRA, Impakt MMD Ltd, 3-4 Pylon Way, Croydon CR0 4XX • Tel: 020 8683 7151 All advertising enquiries to: Terry Finnegan, Literary Review, 44 Lexington Street, London W1F 0LW • Tel: 020 7437 9392 Printed in the United Kingdom by: Henry Ling Ltd, at the Dorset Press, Dorchester DT1 1HD • Tel: 01305 251 066 Distributed to newsagents worldwide by: COMAG Specialist, Tavistock Works, Tavistock Rd, West Drayton, Middlesex, UB7 7QX • Tel: 01895 433 800 Distributed to bookshops by: Central Books, 99 Wallis Road, London E9 5LN • Tel: 020 8986 4854 Subscriptions: theliteraryreview@warnes.co.uk Editorial: editorial@literaryreview.co.uk www.literaryreview.co.uk • @lit_review Designed by Cog Design Literary Review is set in Adobe Caslon and Janet. The latter is a digitisation of an engraved typeface designed by the artist and typographer Reynolds Stone, and named after his wife. Literary Review | f e b r u a r y 2 0 1 4 2 p u l p i t 1 Frances Wilson h i st or y 5 Felipe Fernández-Armesto The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood Irving Finkel 6 John Adamson Rebellion: Britain’s First Stuart Kings, 1567–1642 Tim Harris 9 David Gelber The Field of Cloth of Gold Glenn Richardson 10 James Hall The Ugly Renaissance Alexander Lee 11 William Anthony Hay The Men Who Lost America: British Command During the Revolutionary War & the Preservation of the Empire Andrew O’Shaughnessy b i o g r a p hy & l e t t e r s 12 Charles Allen Farzana: The Tempestuous Life and Times of Begum Sumru Julia Keay 13 Leslie Mitchell One Hundred Letters from Hugh Trevor-Roper (edd) Richard Davenport-Hines & Adam Sisman 14 Anne Sebba Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power Claudia Renton r i c h p i c k i n g s 16 Martin Vander Weyer The Firm: The Inside Story of McKinsey Duff McDonald 17 Michael Burleigh Gold: The Race for the World ’s Most Seductive Metal Matthew Hart l i t e r a r y l o thar i o s 18 Ian Sansom William S Burroughs: A Life Barry Miles • Taking Shots: The Photography of William S Burroughs Patricia Allmer & John Sears 19 Richard Canning The Animals: Love Letters Between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy (ed) Katherine Bucknell • The Man Who Was Norris: The Life of Gerald Hamilton Tom Cullen
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c o n t e n t s f e b r ua r y 2 0 1 4 • i s s u e 4 1 7

Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Editor-at-Large Jeremy Lewis Senior Editor Jonathan Beckman Chief Editorial Assistant Frank Brinkley Editorial Assistants David Gelber • Tom Williams Contributing Editors Michael Burleigh Sara Wheeler • Philip Womack Advertising Manager Terry Finnegan Classified Advertising David Sturge Founding Father Auberon Waugh Cover Illustration Chris Riddell

The Literary Review, incorporating Quarto, is published monthly from: 44 Lexington Street, London W1F 0LW • Tel: 020 7437 9392 Fax: 020 7734 1844 • ISSN 0144 4360 © All subscription enquiries and changes of address to: Literary Review Subscriptions, FREEPOST RSJB-SUGY-ZKRA, Impakt MMD Ltd, 3-4 Pylon Way, Croydon CR0 4XX • Tel: 020 8683 7151 All advertising enquiries to: Terry Finnegan, Literary Review, 44 Lexington Street, London W1F 0LW • Tel: 020 7437 9392 Printed in the United Kingdom by: Henry Ling Ltd, at the Dorset Press, Dorchester DT1 1HD • Tel: 01305 251 066 Distributed to newsagents worldwide by: COMAG Specialist, Tavistock Works, Tavistock Rd, West Drayton, Middlesex, UB7 7QX • Tel: 01895 433 800 Distributed to bookshops by: Central Books, 99 Wallis Road, London E9 5LN • Tel: 020 8986 4854 Subscriptions: theliteraryreview@warnes.co.uk Editorial: editorial@literaryreview.co.uk www.literaryreview.co.uk • @lit_review Designed by Cog Design Literary Review is set in Adobe Caslon and Janet. The latter is a digitisation of an engraved typeface designed by the artist and typographer Reynolds Stone, and named after his wife.

Literary Review | f e b r u a r y 2 0 1 4 2

p u l p i t 1 Frances Wilson h i st or y 5 Felipe Fernández-Armesto

The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood Irving Finkel 6 John Adamson

Rebellion: Britain’s First Stuart Kings, 1567–1642 Tim Harris 9 David Gelber

The Field of Cloth of Gold Glenn Richardson 10 James Hall

The Ugly Renaissance Alexander Lee 11 William Anthony Hay

The Men Who Lost America: British Command During the Revolutionary War & the Preservation of the Empire Andrew O’Shaughnessy b i o g r a p hy & l e t t e r s 12 Charles Allen

Farzana: The Tempestuous Life and Times of Begum Sumru Julia Keay 13 Leslie Mitchell

One Hundred Letters from Hugh Trevor-Roper (edd) Richard Davenport-Hines & Adam Sisman 14 Anne Sebba

Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power Claudia Renton r i c h p i c k i n g s 16 Martin Vander Weyer

The Firm: The Inside Story of McKinsey Duff McDonald 17 Michael Burleigh

Gold: The Race for the World ’s Most Seductive Metal Matthew Hart l i t e r a r y l o thar i o s 18 Ian Sansom

William S Burroughs: A Life Barry Miles • Taking Shots: The Photography of William S Burroughs Patricia Allmer & John Sears 19 Richard Canning

The Animals: Love Letters Between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy (ed) Katherine Bucknell • The Man Who Was Norris: The Life of Gerald Hamilton Tom Cullen

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