Contents

From the Editors Tigers at the Double Lion • TIM MACKINTOSH-SMITH

Anthony Burgess’s Malayan trilogy

‘Delighted’ of Tunbridge Wells • DAVID GILMOUR

Richard Cobb, Still Life

Food without Shame • OLIVIA POTTS

Laurie Colwin’s cookery books

When in Rome . . . • ROBIN BLAKE

Robert Graves, I, Claudius & Claudius the God

The Shining City • AMANDA THEUNISEN

Rose Macaulay, The Towers of Trebizond

All’s Well that Ends Well • JIM RING

Arthur Ransome, Coot Club & The Big Six

An American Childhood • MARKIE ROBSON-SCOTT

Eda Lord, Childsplay

England, Their England • JONATHAN KEATES

John Moore, The Waters under the Earth

Unravelling Burushaski • LESLEY DOWNER

E. O. Lorimer, Language Hunting in the Karakorum The Joy of Sex • DEREK PARKER

The memoirs of Casanova

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