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contents art & music 26 Norman Lebrecht The Political Orchestra: The Vienna & Berlin Philharmonics during the Third Reich Fritz Trümpi 27 Dominic Gr een Lawrence Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity (edd) Elizabeth Prettejohn & Peter Trippi 29 James S tourton Rogues’ Gallery: A History of Art & Its Dealers Philip Hook footprints 30 John Banville revisits Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady literary lives 31 Patricia Duncker The Transferred Life of George Eliot: The Biography of a Novelist Philip Davis 32 Andr ew Lycett Arthur & Sherlock: Conan Doyle & the Creation of Holmes Michael Sims 34 Jonathan Keates The N ovel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of ‘Les Misérables’ David Bellos medicine 36 Manjit Kumar The Vaccine Race: How Scientists Used Human Cells to Combat Killer Viruses Meredith Wadman 37 Ric hard Canning How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists & Scientists Tamed AIDS David France animal matters 39 Charles Foster Other Minds: The Octopus & the Evolution of Intelligent Life Peter Godfrey-Smith 40 P atrick Scrivenor Ivory: Power & Poaching in Africa Keith Somerville general 42 Damian Thompson The Catholics: The Church & Its People in Britain & Ireland, from the Reformation to the Present Day Roy Hattersley 43 Jonathan Meades It ’s Been Said Before: A Guide to the Use & Abuse of Clichés Orin Hargraves 45 Joan S mith Irresistible: Why We Can’t Stop Checking, Scrolling, Clicking & Watching Adam Alter 46 F rances Wilson Heartthrobs: A History of Women & Desire Carol Dyhouse 47 W illiam Palmer Fathers Sam Miller • Fathers and Sons Howard Cunnell • The Old King in His Exile Arno Geiger 48 Max Hildebr and Herding Cats: The Art of Amateur Cricket Captaincy Charlie Campbell fiction 49 Tim Martin Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders 50 Anthon y Cummins A Natural Ross Raisin 51 Melanie W hite A Line Made by Walking Sara Baume 52 Ke vin Power Exit West Mohsin Hamid 53 Adr ian Turpin In Extremis Tim Parks 54 S am Kitchener on four debut novels 55 Jude Coo k on four short story collections 56 N ick Holdstock The Explosion Chronicles Yan Lianke 56 L esley Downer Pachinko Min Jin Lee 60 Jessic a Mann Crime 58 L ucy Popescu Silenced Voices 14 Crossword 20 Liter ary Review Bookshop at Heywood Hill march 2017 | Literary Review 3

contents art & music 26 Norman Lebrecht

The Political Orchestra: The Vienna & Berlin Philharmonics during the Third Reich Fritz Trümpi

27 Dominic Gr een

Lawrence Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity (edd) Elizabeth Prettejohn & Peter Trippi

29 James S tourton

Rogues’ Gallery: A History of Art & Its Dealers Philip Hook footprints 30 John Banville revisits Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady literary lives 31 Patricia Duncker

The Transferred Life of George Eliot: The Biography of a Novelist Philip Davis

32 Andr ew Lycett

Arthur & Sherlock: Conan Doyle & the Creation of Holmes Michael Sims

34 Jonathan Keates

The N ovel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of ‘Les Misérables’ David Bellos medicine 36 Manjit Kumar

The Vaccine Race: How Scientists Used Human Cells to Combat Killer Viruses Meredith Wadman

37 Ric hard Canning

How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists & Scientists Tamed AIDS David France animal matters 39 Charles Foster

Other Minds: The Octopus & the Evolution of Intelligent Life Peter Godfrey-Smith

40 P atrick Scrivenor

Ivory: Power & Poaching in Africa Keith Somerville general 42 Damian Thompson

The Catholics: The Church & Its People in Britain & Ireland, from the Reformation to the Present Day Roy Hattersley 43 Jonathan Meades

It ’s Been Said Before: A Guide to the Use & Abuse of Clichés Orin Hargraves 45 Joan S mith

Irresistible: Why We Can’t Stop Checking, Scrolling, Clicking & Watching Adam Alter 46 F rances Wilson

Heartthrobs: A History of Women & Desire Carol Dyhouse 47 W illiam Palmer

Fathers Sam Miller • Fathers and Sons Howard Cunnell • The Old King in His Exile Arno Geiger 48 Max Hildebr and

Herding Cats: The Art of Amateur Cricket Captaincy Charlie Campbell fiction 49 Tim Martin

Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders 50 Anthon y Cummins

A Natural Ross Raisin 51 Melanie W hite

A Line Made by Walking Sara Baume 52 Ke vin Power

Exit West Mohsin Hamid 53 Adr ian Turpin

In Extremis Tim Parks 54 S am Kitchener on four debut novels 55 Jude Coo k on four short story collections 56 N ick Holdstock

The Explosion Chronicles Yan Lianke 56 L esley Downer

Pachinko Min Jin Lee

60 Jessic a Mann Crime 58 L ucy Popescu Silenced Voices 14 Crossword 20 Liter ary Review Bookshop at Heywood Hill march 2017 | Literary Review 3

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