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contents september 2021 • issue 500 Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Assistant Editors Frank Brinkley • David Gelber Contributing Editors Jonathan Beckman Michael Burleigh • Sara Wheeler • Philip Womack Editorial & Marketing Assistant Michael Delgado Marketing Manager Constance Watson Advertising Manager Terry Finnegan Classified Advertising David Sturge Founding Editor Dr Anne Smith Cover Illustration Chris Riddell The Literary Review, incorporating Quarto, is published monthly from: 44 Lexington Street, London W1F 0LW • ISSN 0144 4360 Tel: 020 7437 9392 • editorial@literaryreview.co.uk letters@literaryreview.co.uk 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 subscriptions@warnersgroup.co.uk All advertising enquiries to: Terry Finnegan, Literary Review, 44 Lexington Street, London W1F 0LW • Tel: 020 7437 9392 terry@literaryreview.co.uk • david.sturge@btopenworld.com Print by: CPUK Print Publishing Ltd, www.cp-uk.co.uk Distributed to newsagents worldwide by: Seymour Distribution Ltd • Tel: 020 7429 4000 Distributed to bookshops by: Central Books, 99 Wallis Road, London E9 5LN • Tel: 020 8986 4854 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 | september 2021 2 diary 1 John Banville literary lives 6 Claudia FitzHerbert The Turning Point: A Year That Changed Dickens & the World Robert Douglas-Fairhurst 7 Allan Massie The Sins of G K Chesterton Richard Ingrams 9 Susan Elizabeth Sweeney The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe & the Forging of American Science John Tresch 10 Andrew Hussey Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Journeys to the Extreme Damian Catani corridors of power 12 Michael White The Prime Ministers We Never Had: Success & Failure from Butler to Corbyn Steve Richards 13 Robin Oakley Lobby Life: Inside Westminster’s Secret Society Carole Walker 15 Alan Taylor Break-Up: How Alex Salmond & Nicola Sturgeon Went to War David Clegg & Kieran Andrews biography 16 Sarah Watling The Radical Potter: Josiah Wedgwood & the Transformation of Britain Tristram Hunt 18 Norma Clarke All In: An Autobiography Billie Jean King 19 Gavin Plumley Mozart in Motion: His Work & His World in Pieces Patrick Mackie who do you think you are? 20 Richard V Reeves Generations: Does When You’re Born Shape Who You Are? Bobby Duffy 21 Darrin M McMahon The Status Game: On Social Position & How We Use It Will Storr
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contents 23 Tom Whyman Being a Human: Adventures in 40,000 Years of Consciousness Charles Foster 24 Thomas Blaikie WASPs: The Splendors & Miseries of an American Aristocracy Michael Knox Beran history 25 Adam Zamoyski Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial War 1931–1945 Richard Overy 26 Simon J V Malloch Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern Mary Beard 28 Piers Brendon On the Cusp: Days of ’62 David Kynaston 29 Adam Sisman The Free World: Art & Thought in the Cold War Louis Menand 30 Zareer Masani Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market Nicholas Wapshott celebrating 500 issues 32 A history in covers planet earth 34 Nigel Andrew A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth: 4.6 Billion Years in 12 Chapters Henry Gee 35 Colin Tudge Eating to Extinction: The World’s Rarest Foods & Why We Need to Save Them Dan Saladino general 37 Nick Holdstock The Amur River: Between Russia & China Colin Thubron 38 Joanna Kavenna On Freedom: Four Songs of Care & Constraint Maggie Nelson 39 Simon Yarrow God: An Anatomy Francesca Stavrakopoulou 40 Frances Cairncross Family Business: An Intimate History of John Lewis & the Partnership Victoria Glendinning 41 John Maier Nina Simone’s Gum Warren Ellis • Two Hitlers and a Marilyn: An Autograph Hunter’s Escape from Suburbia Adam Andrusier 44 Adam Douglas Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure Dennis Duncan 45 Rupert Christiansen The Complete Songs of Hugo Wolf: Life, Letters, Lieder Richard Stokes 46 Peyton Skipwith Art of the Extreme, 1905 to 1914 Philip Hook fiction 48 Kate Kirkpatrick The Inseparables Simone de Beauvoir 49 James Purdon The Making of Incarnation Tom McCarthy 50 Ian Critchley The Magician Colm Tóibín 51 Simon Baker Snow Country Sebastian Faulks 52 Daniya Baiguzhayeva Magpie Elizabeth Day 53 Tomiwa Owolade Tenderness Alison MacLeod 54 Lindsay Duguid What Happens at Night Peter Cameron 54 Alice Jolly Great Circle Maggie Shipstead fiction in brief 56 The Manningtree Witches A K Blakemore • Three Graves Sean Gregory • Last Summer in the City Gianfranco Calligarich • Paul Daisy Lafarge silenced voices 57 Lucy Popescu Belarusian Democracy Movement crime 58 Natasha Cooper bookends 64 Vybarr Cregan-Reid What Hardy did for me competition 31 Fergus Butler-Gallie sets a monthly challenge 23 LR Bookshop 36 Letters 14 Crossword september 2021 | Literary Review 3

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contents september 2021 • issue 500

Editor Nancy Sladek Deputy Editor Tom Fleming Assistant Editors Frank Brinkley • David Gelber Contributing Editors Jonathan Beckman Michael Burleigh • Sara Wheeler • Philip Womack Editorial & Marketing Assistant Michael Delgado Marketing Manager Constance Watson Advertising Manager Terry Finnegan Classified Advertising David Sturge Founding Editor Dr Anne Smith Cover Illustration Chris Riddell

The Literary Review, incorporating Quarto, is published monthly from: 44 Lexington Street, London W1F 0LW • ISSN 0144 4360 Tel: 020 7437 9392 • editorial@literaryreview.co.uk letters@literaryreview.co.uk 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 subscriptions@warnersgroup.co.uk All advertising enquiries to: Terry Finnegan, Literary Review, 44 Lexington Street, London W1F 0LW • Tel: 020 7437 9392 terry@literaryreview.co.uk • david.sturge@btopenworld.com Print by: CPUK Print Publishing Ltd, www.cp-uk.co.uk Distributed to newsagents worldwide by: Seymour Distribution Ltd • Tel: 020 7429 4000 Distributed to bookshops by: Central Books, 99 Wallis Road, London E9 5LN • Tel: 020 8986 4854 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 | september 2021 2

diary 1 John Banville literary lives 6 Claudia FitzHerbert

The Turning Point: A Year That Changed Dickens & the World Robert Douglas-Fairhurst 7 Allan Massie

The Sins of G K Chesterton Richard Ingrams 9 Susan Elizabeth Sweeney

The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe & the Forging of American Science John Tresch 10 Andrew Hussey

Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Journeys to the Extreme Damian Catani corridors of power 12 Michael White

The Prime Ministers We Never Had: Success & Failure from Butler to Corbyn Steve Richards 13 Robin Oakley

Lobby Life: Inside Westminster’s Secret Society Carole Walker 15 Alan Taylor

Break-Up: How Alex Salmond & Nicola Sturgeon Went to War David Clegg & Kieran Andrews biography 16 Sarah Watling

The Radical Potter: Josiah Wedgwood & the Transformation of Britain Tristram Hunt 18 Norma Clarke

All In: An Autobiography Billie Jean King 19 Gavin Plumley

Mozart in Motion: His Work & His World in Pieces Patrick Mackie who do you think you are? 20 Richard V Reeves

Generations: Does When You’re Born Shape Who You Are? Bobby Duffy 21 Darrin M McMahon

The Status Game: On Social Position & How We Use It Will Storr

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