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contents history 23 Robert Mayhew The Enlightenment Ritchie Robertson 24 Kate Wiles The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery Seb Falk 25 Margarette Lincoln Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution & Empire Sujit Sivasundaram 26 Eleanor Barraclough The Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings Neil Price • Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir 28 Keith Lowe Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War – 1938–1941 Alan Allport biography & memoir 30 Michael White Boris Johnson: The Gambler Tom Bower 31 Richard Davenport-Hines Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca Ferdinand Mount 32 Piers Brendon Oh Happy Day: Those Times & These Times Carmen Callil music & art 34 Michael Tanner Wagnerism: Art & Politics in the Shadow of Music Alex Ross 36 James Hamilton Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Darkness Matthew Craske 37 Jonathan Keates An Elephant in Rome: Bernini, the Pope & the Making of the Eternal City Loyd Grossman homo sapiens 38 Paul Broks The Pattern Seekers: A New Theory of Human Invention Simon Baron-Cohen general 40 Kathryn Hughes Jeoffry: The Poet’s Cat Oliver Soden • Lost Cat Mary Gaitskill • Feline Philosophy: Cats & the Meaning of Life John Gray 41 Tom Holland Metropolis Ben Wilson 42 Frances Cairncross The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, & an Inflation Revival Charles Goodhart & Manoj Pradhan 44 Robert Colls A People’s History of Classics Edith Hall & Henry Stead 45 Andrew Crumey The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World Sarah Stewart Johnson 46 Lucy Lethbridge Rummage Emily Cockayne • Rag and Bone Lisa Woollett 47 Peter Jones How to Teach Classics to Your Dog Philip Womack notebook 48 Anthony Cummins on reading the Goncourts fiction 50 John Maier Mr Wilder & Me Jonathan Coe 51 John Phipps Xstabeth David Keenan 52 Tanjil Rashid Homeland Elegies Ayad Akhtar 53 Hannah Rosefield The New Wilderness Diane Cook 54 Mia Levitin Daddy Emma Cline • To Be a Man Nicole Krauss 55 Michael Delgado Summerwater Sarah Moss 56 Josie Mitchell Burnt Sugar Avni Doshi 56 Sam Sheldon When We Cease to Understand the World Benjamín Labatut 57 Laura Hackett A Ghost in the Throat Doireann Ní Ghríofa poems 39 Peter Rose ‘Come Rain or Come Shine’ 52 Stephen Knight ‘A Powim’ crime 58 Natasha Cooper on nine new novels silenced voices 60 Lucy Popescu on Pham Doan Trang bookends 64 Shaun Bythell on bookselling in lockdown 22 LR Bookshop 49 Letters 19 Crossword november 2020 | Literary Review 3

contents history 23 Robert Mayhew

The Enlightenment Ritchie Robertson 24 Kate Wiles

The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery Seb Falk 25 Margarette Lincoln

Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution & Empire Sujit Sivasundaram 26 Eleanor Barraclough

The Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings Neil Price • Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir 28 Keith Lowe

Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War – 1938–1941 Alan Allport biography & memoir 30 Michael White

Boris Johnson: The Gambler Tom Bower 31 Richard Davenport-Hines

Kiss Myself Goodbye: The Many Lives of Aunt Munca Ferdinand Mount 32 Piers Brendon

Oh Happy Day: Those Times & These Times Carmen Callil music & art 34 Michael Tanner

Wagnerism: Art & Politics in the Shadow of Music Alex Ross 36 James Hamilton

Joseph Wright of Derby: Painter of Darkness Matthew Craske 37 Jonathan Keates

An Elephant in Rome: Bernini, the Pope & the Making of the Eternal City Loyd Grossman homo sapiens 38 Paul Broks

The Pattern Seekers: A New Theory of Human Invention Simon Baron-Cohen general 40 Kathryn Hughes

Jeoffry: The Poet’s Cat Oliver Soden • Lost Cat Mary Gaitskill • Feline Philosophy: Cats & the Meaning of Life John Gray 41 Tom Holland

Metropolis Ben Wilson

42 Frances Cairncross

The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, & an Inflation Revival Charles Goodhart & Manoj Pradhan 44 Robert Colls

A People’s History of Classics Edith Hall & Henry Stead 45 Andrew Crumey

The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World Sarah Stewart Johnson 46 Lucy Lethbridge

Rummage Emily Cockayne • Rag and Bone Lisa Woollett 47 Peter Jones

How to Teach Classics to Your Dog Philip Womack notebook 48 Anthony Cummins on reading the Goncourts fiction 50 John Maier Mr Wilder & Me Jonathan Coe 51 John Phipps Xstabeth David Keenan 52 Tanjil Rashid Homeland Elegies Ayad Akhtar 53 Hannah Rosefield The New Wilderness Diane Cook 54 Mia Levitin Daddy Emma Cline • To Be a Man Nicole Krauss 55 Michael Delgado Summerwater Sarah Moss 56 Josie Mitchell Burnt Sugar Avni Doshi 56 Sam Sheldon When We Cease to Understand the World

Benjamín Labatut 57 Laura Hackett A Ghost in the Throat Doireann Ní Ghríofa poems 39 Peter Rose ‘Come Rain or Come Shine’ 52 Stephen Knight ‘A Powim’

crime 58 Natasha Cooper on nine new novels silenced voices 60 Lucy Popescu on Pham Doan Trang bookends 64 Shaun Bythell on bookselling in lockdown

22 LR Bookshop 49 Letters 19 Crossword november 2020 | Literary Review 3

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