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contents april 2017 • issue 452 Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Editor-at-Large Jeremy Lewis Assistant Editors Frank Brinkley • David Gelber Editorial Assistant Sophie Baggott Contributing Editors Jonathan Beckman Michael Burleigh • Sara Wheeler • Philip Womack Advertising Manager Terry Finnegan Classified Advertising David Sturge Marketing Manager Katherine Bogden Bayard Founding Father Auberon Waugh Founding Editor Dr Anne Smith 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 | april 2017 2 pulpit 1 Dominic Green biography 6 Donald Rayfield Miłosz: A Biography Andrzej Franaszek 8 Lucy Lethbridge The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound Wendy Moore 9 Kenneth O Morgan Victor Grayson: The Man & the Mystery David Clark history 11 Felipe Fernández-Armesto The Moor’s Last Stand: How Seven Centuries of Muslim Rule in Spain Came to an End Elizabeth Drayson 12 Adrian Tinniswood The English Conquest of Jamaica: Oliver Cromwell’s Bid for Empire Carla Gardina Pestana • Oliver Cromwell: England’s Protector David Horspool 14 Richard Bourke Edmund Burke & The Invention of Modern Conservatism Emily Jones 15 Jonathan Keates Talleyrand in London: The Master Diplomat’s Last Mission Linda Kelly 17 Keith Lowe Hannah’s Dress: Berlin 1904–2014 Pascale Hugues art 18 Tanya Harrod Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship Andy Friend 20 Ariane Bankes David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet Thomas Dilworth 21 Kevin Jackson Red: The History of a Color Michel Pastoureau food 23 Felicity Cloake Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating Charles Spence 24 Simon Heffer The Oxford Companion to Cheese (ed) Catherine Donnelly 25 Christopher Hart The Plagiarist in the Kitchen Jonathan Meades
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contents house & garden 27 John Guy Houses of Power: The Places that Shaped The Tudor World Simon Thurley 28 Tim Richardson Gardens of Court and Country: English Design 1630–1730 David Jacques poetry 30 David Wheatley on four new collections 31 Jan Morris The Prelude William Wordsworth, (edd) James Engell & Michael D Raymond the state we’re in 33 Michael Burleigh The Fate of the West: The Battle to Save the World’s Most Valuable Political Idea Bill Emmott 34 Martin Vander Weyer The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Maths Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, & One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History David Enrich foreign parts 35 Owen Matthews Who Lost Russia? How the World Entered a New Cold War Peter Conradi 37 Jonathan Fenby Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination Robert Bickers 38 Richard Cockett Breaking Sudan: The Search for Peace Jok Madut Jok 40 Roderick Matthews Superfast Primetime Ultimate Nation: The Relentless Invention of Modern India Adam Roberts general 41 Douglas Murray From Benito Mussolini to Hugo Chavez: Intellectuals & a Century of Political Hero Worship Paul Hollander 42 Jonathan Beckman To Be a Machine: Adventures among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, & the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death Mark O’Connell 44 Karen Armstrong The Kingdom Emmanuel Carrère 45 Tim Stanley Killers of the Flower Moon David Grann 46 Nigel Andrew The Village News: The Truth Behind England’s Rural Idyll Tom Fort 46 Benedict Nightingale Hamlet: Globe to Globe Dominic Dromgoole poem 47 Aldo Palazzeschi ‘The Stranger’ Translated by Michael Alexander fiction 48 Louis Amis Pussy Howard Jacobson 49 James Purdon White Tears Hari Kunzru 50 Clare Clark The Evening Road Laird Hunt 51 Houman Barekat The Blood Miracles Lisa McInerney 52 David Annand Let Go My Hand Edward Docx 53 Fiona Stafford The Walworth Beauty Michèle Roberts 54 Andrew Irwin Reservoir 13 Jon McGregor 54 Cal Revely-Calder Ties Domenico Starnone crime 58 Stephen Bates Ludo and the Power of the Book: Ludovic Kennedy’s Campaigns for Justice Richard Ingrams 59 Jessica Mann on seven crime novels 56 Lucy Popescu Silenced Voices 13 Crossword 10 Literary Review Bookshop april 2017 | Literary Review 3

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contents april 2017 • issue 452 Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Editor-at-Large Jeremy Lewis Assistant Editors Frank Brinkley • David Gelber Editorial Assistant Sophie Baggott Contributing Editors Jonathan Beckman Michael Burleigh • Sara Wheeler • Philip Womack Advertising Manager Terry Finnegan Classified Advertising David Sturge Marketing Manager Katherine Bogden Bayard Founding Father Auberon Waugh Founding Editor Dr Anne Smith 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.

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pulpit 1 Dominic Green biography 6 Donald Rayfield

Miłosz: A Biography Andrzej Franaszek 8 Lucy Lethbridge

The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound Wendy Moore 9 Kenneth O Morgan

Victor Grayson: The Man & the Mystery David Clark history 11 Felipe Fernández-Armesto

The Moor’s Last Stand: How Seven Centuries of Muslim Rule in Spain Came to an End Elizabeth Drayson 12 Adrian Tinniswood

The English Conquest of Jamaica: Oliver Cromwell’s Bid for Empire Carla Gardina Pestana • Oliver Cromwell: England’s Protector David Horspool 14 Richard Bourke

Edmund Burke & The Invention of Modern Conservatism Emily Jones 15 Jonathan Keates

Talleyrand in London: The Master Diplomat’s Last Mission Linda Kelly 17 Keith Lowe

Hannah’s Dress: Berlin 1904–2014 Pascale Hugues art 18 Tanya Harrod

Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship Andy Friend 20 Ariane Bankes

David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet Thomas Dilworth 21 Kevin Jackson

Red: The History of a Color Michel Pastoureau food 23 Felicity Cloake

Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating Charles Spence 24 Simon Heffer

The Oxford Companion to Cheese (ed) Catherine Donnelly 25 Christopher Hart

The Plagiarist in the Kitchen Jonathan Meades

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