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This month’s pulpit is written by Jeremy Lewis. He has just finished a biography of David Astor. Paul Bailey is working on a novel called Playing the Fool. The Prince’s Boy comes out in paperback in March. Elspeth Barker is currently working on a novel and a memoir. R J B Bosworth’s last two books are Whispering City: Rome and its Histories (2011) and Italian Venice: A History (2014), both published by Yale University Press. Scott Bradfield’s recent books include Why I Hate Toni Morrison’s Beloved, a collection of essays and reviews. Mick Brown is the author of The Dance of 17 Lives: The Incredible True Story of Tibet’s 17th Karmapa (Bloomsbury). Michael Bywater is completing his libretto for a musical about Oscar Wilde and revising his novel about a miracle detective and a vast Cavaillé-Coll cathedral organ. Rupert Christiansen is opera critic for the Daily Telegraph. Richard Cockett has reported for The Economist from Latin America, Africa and Asia. His new book on Burma will be published in the summer by Yale University Press. David Collard’s forthcoming book is About a Girl (CB editions). Richard Davenport-Hines’s new book Universal Man, a biography of Keynes for non-economists, will be published in March. William Doyle’s most recent book is France and the Age of Revolution: Regimes Old and New from Louis XIV to Napoleon Bonaparte (I B Tauris). Tom Feiling is the author of The Candy Machine: How Cocaine Took Over the World (Penguin). David Gelber is treasurer of the Society for Court Studies. David Gilmour has written biographies of George Curzon and Rudyard Kipling and is the author of The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj. Philip Graham is vice-chair of Dignity in Dying.
D D Guttenplan is London correspondent for The Nation, and is currently at work on a history of that magazine to be published in conjunction with its 150th birthday this year. James Hall’s The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History (Thames & Hudson) has been longlisted for the Art Book Prize. Christopher Hart’s latest William Napier novel, Ivan the Terrible, was published last year. Kevin Jackson’s collection of essays, Carnal, is published this month by Pallas Athene Arts. Nigel Jones is writing a book on Britain's royal palaces for Head of Zeus. Jonathan Keates’s most recent book is The Siege of Venice (Chatto & Windus). John Keay is the author of Midnight’s Descendants: South Asia from Partition to the Present Day (William Collins). Cosmo Landesman is the dating correspondent of the Sunday Times style section. Paul Lay is editor of History Today. Alberto Manguel is a Canadian writer and the author of A History of Reading, The Library at Night and All Men Are Liars, among others. His new book, Curiosity, will appear in April. Jessica Mann’s 1981 study of women crime writers, Deadlier than the Male, is republished this month as an ebook. Thomas Marks is the editor of Apollo and a founding editor of The Junket. Justin Marozzi lived in Mogadishu from 2013 to 2014 and is writing a new history of the Middle East. Andy Martin is currently at work on Reacher 20, a book about Lee Child.
Philip Maughan is an assistant editor at the New Statesman. Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist who writes about science, philosophy and literature. His The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World was published by Yale in 2009. He is currently working on a book called When the Porcupine is a Monkey, to be published by Penguin Press. Caroline Moorehead’s most recent book, Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France, was shortlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize. She is working on a life of the Rosselli family, Florentine antifascists murdered by Mussolini. Jan Morris’s most recent book, the caprice Ciao, Carpaccio!, was published last year. Richard Overy is the author of The Dictators: Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Russia. Sumit Paul-Choudhury is the editor of New Scientist and editor-in-chief of Arc. Seamus Perry is a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and author of The Connell Guide to T S Eliot’s The Waste Land. Lucy Popescu is the author of The Good Tourist (Arcadia). Dominic Sandbrook is writing a history of Britain in the early 1980s. Rob Turner is a freelance writer. Adrian Turpin is a freelance writer and director of the Wigtown Book Festival. Christopher Tyerman is a Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. Harriet Walker is deputy fashion editor at The Times. Kaite Welsh is a freelance arts critic and journalist. Sara Wheeler’s books include The Magnetic North: Travels in the Arctic (Vintage). Francis Wheen’s biography of Jeremy Thorpe’s friend Tom Driberg, another skater on thin ice, is published by Fourth Estate. Philip Womack’s new book, The King’s Shadow, will be out soon.
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