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contents october 2015 • issue 436 Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Editor-at-Large Jeremy Lewis Senior Editor Jonathan Beckman Chief Editorial Assistant Frank Brinkley Editorial Assistant David Gelber Contributing Editors Michael Burleigh Sara Wheeler • Philip Womack Advertising Manager Terry Finnegan Classified Advertising David Sturge Marketing Assistant Katherine Bogden Bayard 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, The Maltings, West Street, Bourne, Lincolnshire PE10 9PH • Tel: +44 (0) 1778 395 165 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: subscriptions@warnersgroup.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 | october 2015 2 pulpit 1 Catherine Brown biography 6 Raymond Seitz Kissinger: 1923–1965 – The Idealist Niall Ferguson 8 Seamus Deane Empire & Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke Richard Bourke 10 Patrick Marnham Lucie Aubrac: The French Resistance Heroine who Defied the Gestapo Siân Rees 11 William Doino Francis: Pope of Good Promise Jimmy Burns 12 Wendy Moore Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore Julie Peakman 13 Leanda de Lisle The Lost Tudor Princess Alison Weir 14 Christopher Bray Peter O’Toole: The Definitive Biography Robert Sellers history 16 Piers Brendon The Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James’s 1932-1943 (ed) Gabriel Gorodetsky 17 R I Moore The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe E M Rose 19 Peter Sarris The Lost World of Byzantium Jonathan Harris 20 Leo McKinstry The War in the West: Volume I James Holland 21 Christopher Andrew The End of the Cold War 1985–1991 Robert Service 23 Nikolai Tolstoy Beware the Rugged Russian Bear John Ure 24 Richard Overy The Age of Catastrophe: A History of the West, 1914–1945 Heinrich August Winkler literary lives 26 Samantha Ellis Charlotte Brontë: A Life Claire Harman 28 Naomi Wood Hemingway in Love: His Own Story A E Hotchner • The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 3 – 1926–1929 (edd) Rena Sanderson, Sandra Spanier & Robert W Trogdon
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contents 30 Katherine Duncan-Jones 1606: William Shakespeare & the Year of ‘Lear’ James Shapiro 32 Charles Elliott The Millionaire and the Bard: Henry Folger’s Obsessive Hunt for Shakespeare’s First Folio Andrea Mays art 33 Victoria Glendinning The White Road: A Pilgrimage of Sorts Edmund de Waal 34 James Hall The Face of Britain Simon Schama 35 Charles Saumarez Smith The People’s Galleries: Art Museums & Exhibitions in Britain, 1800-1914 Giles Waterfield 37 Thomas Marks Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art Julian Barnes earth & moon 38 Robert Mayhew The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World Oliver Morton 39 Sara Wheeler Pacific: The Ocean of the Future Simon Winchester 40 John Gribbin Moonstruck: How Lunar Cycles Affect Life Ernest Naylor foreign parts 42 Donald Rayfield The New Tsar: The Rise & Reign of Vladimir Putin Steven Lee Myers • The Invention of Russia: The Journey from Gorbachev’s Freedom to Putin’s War Arkady Ostrovsky • Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin & the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped Garry Kasparov 44 Michael Burleigh Circling the Square: Stories from the Egyptian Revolution Wendell Steavenson 46 Anne Sebba The House by the Lake: A Story of Germany Thomas Harding 47 Patrick Wilcken Nemesis: One Man & the Battle for Rio Misha Glenny 49 Jonathan Mirsky Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads Paul Theroux general 50 Joe Moran The Great British Dream Factory: The Strange History of Our National Imagination Dominic Sandbrook 51 Adrian Weale Aftershock: The Untold Story of Surviving Peace Matthew Green 52 Joan Smith The Strange Case of Thomas Quick Dan Josefsson 54 Melissa Harrison The Land of the Green Man Carolyne Larrington 55 Frances Wilson The Book of Human Emotions Tiffany Watt Smith 56 Patricia Fara The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution David Wootton 57 David Bodanis Brief Candle in the Dark Richard Dawkins 58 Andy Martin Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life William Finnegan 59 Pete Clark The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory John Seabrook fiction 60 Yasmine Seale A Strangeness in My Mind Orhan Pamuk 61 Joanna Kavenna A Manual for Cleaning Women Lucia Berlin 62 Claire Lowdon The Heart Goes Last Margaret Atwood 64 Kevin Power A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James 65 Tom Williams Beatlebone Kevin Barry 66 Jonathan Barnes Slade House David Mitchell 67 Matthew Adams High Dive Jonathan Lee 68 Lucy Daniel The Gap of Time Jeanette Winterson 68 Laura Gallagher The Book of Memory Petina Gappah • The Death of Rex Nhongo C B George 69 Ophelia Field The Past Tessa Hadley 70 Jessica Mann Crime 72 Lucy Popescu Silenced Voices 31 Crossword 28 Literary Review Bookshop at Heywood Hill october 2015 | Literary Review 3

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contents october 2015 • issue 436

Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Editor-at-Large Jeremy Lewis Senior Editor Jonathan Beckman Chief Editorial Assistant Frank Brinkley Editorial Assistant David Gelber Contributing Editors Michael Burleigh Sara Wheeler • Philip Womack Advertising Manager Terry Finnegan Classified Advertising David Sturge Marketing Assistant Katherine Bogden Bayard 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, The Maltings, West Street, Bourne, Lincolnshire PE10 9PH • Tel: +44 (0) 1778 395 165 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: subscriptions@warnersgroup.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 | october 2015 2

pulpit 1 Catherine Brown biography 6 Raymond Seitz

Kissinger: 1923–1965 – The Idealist Niall Ferguson 8 Seamus Deane

Empire & Revolution: The Political Life of Edmund Burke Richard Bourke 10 Patrick Marnham

Lucie Aubrac: The French Resistance Heroine who Defied the Gestapo Siân Rees 11 William Doino

Francis: Pope of Good Promise Jimmy Burns 12 Wendy Moore

Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore Julie Peakman 13 Leanda de Lisle

The Lost Tudor Princess Alison Weir 14 Christopher Bray

Peter O’Toole: The Definitive Biography Robert Sellers history 16 Piers Brendon

The Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James’s 1932-1943 (ed) Gabriel Gorodetsky 17 R I Moore

The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe E M Rose 19 Peter Sarris

The Lost World of Byzantium Jonathan Harris 20 Leo McKinstry

The War in the West: Volume I James Holland 21 Christopher Andrew

The End of the Cold War 1985–1991 Robert Service 23 Nikolai Tolstoy

Beware the Rugged Russian Bear John Ure 24 Richard Overy

The Age of Catastrophe: A History of the West, 1914–1945 Heinrich August Winkler literary lives 26 Samantha Ellis

Charlotte Brontë: A Life Claire Harman 28 Naomi Wood

Hemingway in Love: His Own Story A E Hotchner • The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 3 – 1926–1929 (edd) Rena Sanderson, Sandra Spanier & Robert W Trogdon

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