Contents


  • R.W. Johnson

    • Lord Hailsham: A Life by Geoffrey Lewis
  • Letters

  • Tobias Hill
    Poem: ‘The Pilot in Winter’

  • Keith Thomas

    • The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home by Peter Mandler
    • Ancient as the Hills by James Lees-Milne
    • The Fate of the English Country House by David Littlejohn
  • Hugh Honour

    • A Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy 1701-1800 compiled by John Ingamells
  • E.S. Turner

    • ‘Punch’: The Lively Youth of a British Institution, 1841-51 by Richard Altick
  • Jonathan Rée

    • Truth: A History by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
  • Peter Clarke

    • Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals edited by Niall Ferguson
  • Thomas Powers

    • The Kennedy tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis edited by Ernest May and Philip Zelikow
    • ‘One Hell of a Gamble’: The Secret History of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali
  • John Sturrock

    • Victor Hugo by Graham Robb
  • Peter Campbell

    • The Sweetness of Life: A Biography of Elizabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun by Angelica Goodden
  • Michael Wood

    • Duchamp: A Biography by Calvin Tomkins
    • The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp by Arturo Schwartz
  • Michael Dobson

    • The Origins of English Nonsense by Noel Malcolm
  • Mary Hawthorne
    A Traveller in Residence

  • Lorna Scott Fox
    Diary

  • P.N. Furbank

    • The Treasure Chest by Johann Peter Hebel, translated by John Hibberd