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c o n t e n t s o c t o b e r 2 0 1 4 • i s s u e 4 2 5 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 DMS 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: literaryreview@impakt.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 | o c t o b e r 2 0 1 4 2 p u l p i t 1 Paul Lay h i st or y 5 John Brewer The Smile Revolution in Eighteenth Century Paris Colin Jones 7 Leslie Mitchell The Strangest Family: The Private Lives of George III, Queen Charlotte and the Hanoverians Janice Hadlow 8 Darrin M McMahon Nature’s God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic Matthew Stewart 9 Richard Overy Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance in the Last Year of WWII Randall Hansen 11 Piers Brendon Modernity Britain: A Shake of the Dice, 1959-62 David Kynaston b i o g r a p hy 13 Rachel Polonsky Limonov: A Novel Emmanuel Carrère 14 Richard Canning Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh John Lahr 16 Alexander Waugh The Mad Boy, Lord Berners, My Grandmother and Me Sofka Zinovieff 17 Andrew Lycett Young Lawrence: A Portrait of the Legend as a Young Man Anthony Sattin i r on ma i de n s 19 Tom Holland The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World Adrienne Mayor 20 Linda Porter Joan of Arc: A History Helen Castor 21 Caroline Moorehead Partisan Diary: A Woman’s Life in the Resistance Ada Gobetti t o p d o g s 22 Matthew Parris The Establishment – And How They Get Away with It Owen Jones 23 Martin Vander Weyer The Rich: From Slaves to Super Yachts – A 2,000-Year History John Kampfner
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c o n t e n t s na p o l e on 25 Alan Forrest

Napoleon: The End of Glory Munro Price • The Longest Afternoon: The Four Hundred Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo Brendan Simms 26 C harles Esdaile

Napoleon the Great Andrew Roberts f or e i g n pa rts 28 Owen Matthews

Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul Charles King 30 S ara Wheeler

The Crossing of Antarctica George Lowe & Huw Lewis-Jones Shackleton: By Endurance We Conquer Michael Smith 31 Malise R uthven

Mecca: The Sacred City Ziauddin Sardar g e n i u s l o c i 34 Jan Morris

Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place Philip Marsden 35 Diana Athil l

Claxton: Field Notes from a Small Planet Mark Cocker mus i c & f i lm 36 Rupert Christiansen

Bizet Hugh Macdonald 37 C harles Shaar Murray

The History of Rock ’n’ Roll in Ten Songs Greil Marcus 38 Ke vin Jackson

Werner Herzog: A Guide for the Perplexed Conversations with Paul Cronin g e n e r a l 40 Victoria Glendinning

The Making of Home Judith Flanders 41 Jonathan Mirsky

The Yellow Peril: Dr Fu Manchu & The Rise of Chinaphobia Christopher Frayling 42 Cosmo Landesman

H ow the World Was Won: The Americanization of Everywhere Peter Conrad

43 Emma C hristopher

The Empire of Necessity: The Untold History of a Slave Rebellion in the Age of Liberty Greg Grandin 44 V aughan Bell

Mind Change: How Digital Technologies Are Leaving Their Mark on Our Brains Susan Greenfield 45 Br ian Dillon

33 Artists in 3 Acts Sarah Thornton 46 Anne S ebba

My Grandfather’s Gallery: A Legendary Art Dealer’s Escape from Vichy France Anne Sinclair 47 Br ian Rotman

Enlightening Symbols: A Short History of Mathematical Notation and Its Hidden Powers Joseph Mazur f i c t i on 48 Ruth Scurr

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher Hilary Mantel 49 T homas Marks

Nora Webster Colm Tóibín 50 Joanna K avenna

Lila Marilynne Robinson 51 James Kidd

The Boo k of Strange New Things Michel Faber 52 David W inters

Zone Mathias Enard 52 Mic hael Eaude

Uncertain Glory Joan Sales 53 James C hapman

The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden Jonas Jonasson 54 K ate Saunders

The Bone Clocks David Mitchell 54 Anthon y Cummins

Us David Nicholls 55 Hannah Rosefield

W e Are All Completely Beside Ourselves Karen Joy Fowler

59 Jessic a Mann Crime 58 L ucy Popescu Silenced Voices 12 Crossword 45 Bookshop 56 Letters 60 Classifieds o c t o b e r 2 0 1 4 | Literary Review 3

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