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contents history 26 Patrick Marnham The French Resistance Olivier Wieviorka 27 Norman Stone Dreams of a Great Small Nation: The Mutinous Army that Threatened a Revolution, Destroyed an Empire, Founded a Republic, & Remade the Map of Europe Kevin J McNamara 29 Richard Overy Britain’s War: Into Battle, 1937–1941 Daniel Todman 31 Saul David Burma ’44 James Holland 32 Andrew Roberts Conservative Politics in National and Imperial Crisis: Letters from Britain to the Viceroy of India 1926–31 (ed) Stuart Ball russia & the caucasus 33 Anna Reid Veiled and Unveiled in Chechnya and Dagestan Iwona Kaliszewska & Maciej Falkowski 35 Donald Rayfield Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia’s New Nationalism Charles Clover • A Very Expensive Poison: The Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko & Russia’s War with the West Luke Harding poem 36 Patrick Mackie ‘One Car’ memoirs 38 Jonathan Kirsch But You Did Not Come Back Marceline Loridan-Ivens • Asylum Moriz Scheyer 39 Robert Chesshyre Negroland: A Memoir Margo Jefferson 40 Frances Wilson Stars, Cars and Crystal Meth Jack Sutherland architecture 41 Andrew Crumey International Space Station: Architecture beyond Earth David Nixon 42 Otto Saumarez Smith Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism Barnabas Calder general 44 Sumit Paul-Choudhury The Gene: An Intimate History Siddhartha Mukherjee 45 Hannah Dawson The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick Jessica Riskin 47 Miranda Seymour The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House between the Wars Adrian Tinniswood 48 Gillian Darley A Walk in the Park: The Life & Times of a People’s Institution Travis Elborough 50 Tom Fort The Swordfish and the Star: Life on Cornwall’s Most Treacherous Stretch of Coast Gavin Knight • Tide: The Science & Lore of the Greatest Force on Earth Hugh Aldersey-Williams 51 Dominic Green White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World Geoff Dyer 52 Jeremy Lewis Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love & War Ian Buruma fiction 54 Jan Morris Golden Hill Francis Spufford 55 Elspeth Barker Vinegar Girl Anne Tyler 56 Alex Blasdel Barkskins Annie Proulx 57 Kevin Power Hystopia David Means 58 Richard Canning Our Young Man Edmund White 59 Jude Cook Fever of Animals Miles Allinson 60 Sam Kitchener The Lost Time Accidents John Wray 61 Paul Bailey Dodgers Bill Beverly 62 Tom Williams Lingua Franca William Thacker 63 Laura Gallagher The Girls Emma Cline 63 Melanie White The Muse Jessie Burton children’s books 65 Philip Womack on ten books for young readers crime 66 Stephen Bates We’ll All be Murdered in Our Beds! The Shocking History of Crime Reporting in Britain Duncan Campbell 67 Jessica Mann on seven crime novels 53 Lucy Popescu Silenced Voices 19 LR Bookshop at Heywood Hill 43 Crossword • 34 Letters june 2016 | Literary Review 3

contents history 26 Patrick Marnham

The French Resistance Olivier Wieviorka 27 Norman Stone

Dreams of a Great Small Nation: The Mutinous Army that Threatened a Revolution, Destroyed an Empire, Founded a Republic, & Remade the Map of Europe Kevin J McNamara 29 Richard Overy

Britain’s War: Into Battle, 1937–1941 Daniel Todman 31 Saul David

Burma ’44 James Holland 32 Andrew Roberts

Conservative Politics in National and Imperial Crisis: Letters from Britain to the Viceroy of India 1926–31 (ed) Stuart Ball russia & the caucasus 33 Anna Reid

Veiled and Unveiled in Chechnya and Dagestan Iwona Kaliszewska & Maciej Falkowski 35 Donald Rayfield

Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia’s New Nationalism Charles Clover • A Very Expensive Poison: The Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko & Russia’s War with the West Luke Harding poem 36 Patrick Mackie ‘One Car’

memoirs 38 Jonathan Kirsch

But You Did Not Come Back Marceline Loridan-Ivens • Asylum Moriz Scheyer 39 Robert Chesshyre

Negroland: A Memoir Margo Jefferson 40 Frances Wilson

Stars, Cars and Crystal Meth Jack Sutherland architecture 41 Andrew Crumey

International Space Station: Architecture beyond Earth David Nixon 42 Otto Saumarez Smith

Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism Barnabas Calder general 44 Sumit Paul-Choudhury

The Gene: An Intimate History Siddhartha Mukherjee

45 Hannah Dawson

The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick Jessica Riskin 47 Miranda Seymour

The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House between the Wars Adrian Tinniswood 48 Gillian Darley

A Walk in the Park: The Life & Times of a People’s Institution Travis Elborough 50 Tom Fort

The Swordfish and the Star: Life on Cornwall’s Most Treacherous Stretch of Coast Gavin Knight • Tide: The Science & Lore of the Greatest Force on Earth Hugh Aldersey-Williams 51 Dominic Green

White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World Geoff Dyer 52 Jeremy Lewis

Their Promised Land: My Grandparents in Love & War Ian Buruma fiction 54 Jan Morris Golden Hill Francis Spufford 55 Elspeth Barker Vinegar Girl Anne Tyler 56 Alex Blasdel Barkskins Annie Proulx 57 Kevin Power Hystopia David Means 58 Richard Canning Our Young Man Edmund White 59 Jude Cook Fever of Animals Miles Allinson 60 Sam Kitchener The Lost Time Accidents John Wray 61 Paul Bailey Dodgers Bill Beverly 62 Tom Williams Lingua Franca William Thacker 63 Laura Gallagher The Girls Emma Cline 63 Melanie White The Muse Jessie Burton children’s books 65 Philip Womack on ten books for young readers crime 66 Stephen Bates

We’ll All be Murdered in Our Beds! The Shocking History of Crime Reporting in Britain Duncan Campbell 67 Jessica Mann on seven crime novels 53 Lucy Popescu Silenced Voices 19 LR Bookshop at Heywood Hill 43 Crossword • 34 Letters june 2016 | Literary Review 3

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