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contents october 2017 • issue 458 Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Assistant Editors Frank Brinkley • David Gelber Contributing Editors Jonathan Beckman Michael Burleigh • Sara Wheeler • Philip Womack Advertising Manager Terry Finnegan Classified Advertising David Sturge Marketing Manager Katherine Bogden Bayard 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 | october 2017 2 diary 5 Sam Leith literary lives 6 A N Wilson Mr Lear: A Life of Art & Nonsense Jenny Uglow 7 Jer emy Treglown Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time Hilary Spurling 9 C hristian Lorentzen The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump – Essays & Reportage, 1986–2016 Martin Amis history 10 David Biale Be longing: The Story of the Jews 1492–1900 Simon Schama 12 Mar y Wellesley Queens of the Conquest: England’s Medieval Queens 1066–1167 Alison Weir 13 Car oline Finkel The Sultan’s Organ Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy 15 Anna Kea y To Catch a King: Charles II’s Great Escape Charles Spencer 16 Jo hn Bew Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800–1906 David Cannadine 18 David S tevenson The Internationalists and their Plan to Outlaw War Oona A Hathaway & Scott J Shapiro secessionists 20 John Carlin The Struggle for Catalonia: Rebel Politics in Spain Raphael Minder 22 P aul Bew Gerry Adams: An Unauthorised Life Malachi O’Doherty poem 23 Sean O’Brien ‘From the Cherry Hills’ cities 24 Christopher Woodward The Last London: True Fictions from an Unreal City Iain Sinclair
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contents 25 Allan Massie Rome: A History in Seven Sackings Matthew Kneale 26 Alan T aylor Glasgow: A History of the City Michael Fry biography 27 Michael Bloch Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret Craig Brown 29 Jane Rid ley Joan: The Remarkable Life of Joan Leigh Fermor Simon Fenwick 30 P atricia Fara The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine Lindsey Fitzharris world at war 31 Richard Overy The Trial of Adolf Hitler: The Beer Hall Putsch & the Rise of Nazi Germany David King 32 David S tafford The London Cage: The Secret History of Britain’s World War II Interrogation Centre Helen Fry 34 L eo McKinstry The Women Who Flew for Hitler: The True Story of Hitler’s Valkyries Clare Mulley memoir 36 Alberto Manguel An Odyssey: A Father, a Son & an Epic Daniel Mendelsohn 37 Mar y Kenny Wounds: A Memoir of War & Love Fergal Keane 38 Jo hn Sutherland on four US memoirs moving spirits 40 John Harwood The Ghost: A Cultural History Susan Owens • Haunted: On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies, & Other Monsters of the Natural & Supernatural Worlds Leo Braudy 41 Ke vin Jackson Levitation: The Science, Myth & Magic of Suspension Peter Adey 44 Ric hard Davenport-Hines Entitled: A Critical History of the British Aristocracy Chris Bryant 45 Mir anda Seymour British Embassies: Their Diplomatic & Architectural History James Stourton 46 C harlie Campbell The Diary of a Bookseller Shaun Bythell 47 Jer emy Clarke Midlife: A Philosophical Guide Kieran Setiya fiction 48 David Jays The Sparsholt Affair Alan Hollinghurst 49 Hannah Rosefield Manhatt an Beach Jennifer Egan 50 Jonathan Keates Mrs Osmond John Banville 51 Keith Mil ler Dunbar Edward St Aubyn 52 C lair Wills The Ninth Hour Alice McDermott 53 Jake Ker ridge Devil’s Day Andrew Michael Hurley 54 L ucy Daniel Fresh Complaint Jeffrey Eugenides 55 James Hol land Munich Robert Harris 56 Jonathan Bar nes A Legacy of Spies John le Carré silenced voices 58 Lucy Popescu crime 59 Jessica Mann general 42 Alan Ryan The Squar e and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies & the Struggle for Global Power Niall Ferguson 14 Crossword 20 Liter ary Review Bookshop october 2017 | Literary Review 3

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contents october 2017 • issue 458

Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Assistant Editors Frank Brinkley • David Gelber Contributing Editors Jonathan Beckman Michael Burleigh • Sara Wheeler • Philip Womack Advertising Manager Terry Finnegan Classified Advertising David Sturge Marketing Manager Katherine Bogden Bayard 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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diary 5 Sam Leith literary lives 6 A N Wilson

Mr Lear: A Life of Art & Nonsense Jenny Uglow 7 Jer emy Treglown

Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time Hilary Spurling 9 C hristian Lorentzen

The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump – Essays & Reportage, 1986–2016 Martin Amis history 10 David Biale

Be longing: The Story of the Jews 1492–1900 Simon Schama 12 Mar y Wellesley

Queens of the Conquest: England’s Medieval Queens 1066–1167 Alison Weir 13 Car oline Finkel

The Sultan’s Organ Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy 15 Anna Kea y

To Catch a King: Charles II’s Great Escape Charles Spencer 16 Jo hn Bew

Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800–1906 David Cannadine 18 David S tevenson

The Internationalists and their Plan to Outlaw War Oona A Hathaway & Scott J Shapiro secessionists 20 John Carlin

The Struggle for Catalonia: Rebel Politics in Spain Raphael Minder 22 P aul Bew

Gerry Adams: An Unauthorised Life Malachi O’Doherty poem 23 Sean O’Brien ‘From the Cherry Hills’

cities 24 Christopher Woodward

The Last London: True Fictions from an Unreal City Iain Sinclair

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