Paul Driver

The Roaring Silence: John Cage, A Life by David Revill

Letters

Michael Smethurst, Bonnie McDougall, Chan Hong-Mo, Shen Ning, Lau Bing Sum, Phillip Baker, Stephen Ng, Bobby Chan, Gerald Hammond, Gerald Long, Geoffrey Moorhouse, Adrian Bowyer, Blair Ewing, Tim Longville, Per Runesson, Rosemary Hill, Sylvia Lawson

Basil Davidson

Fitzroy Maclean by Frank McLynn
Franz Joseph by Jean-Paul Bled, translated by Teresa Bridgeman

Paul Addison

John Maynard Keynes: The Economist as Saviour 1920-1937 by Robert Skidelsky
Maynard Keynes: An Economist’s Biography by D.E. Moggridge

Wynne Godley

Reflections on Monetarism by Tim Congdon

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

European Encounters with the New World: From Renaissance to Romanticism by Anthony Pagden
New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery by Anthony Grafton, April Shelford and Nancy Siraisi
The Imaginative Landscape of Christopher Columbus by Valerie Flint
Land without Evil: Utopian Journeys across the South American Watershed by Richard Gott

J.G.A. Pocock

The Cambridge History of Political Thought: 1450-1700 edited by J.H. Burns and Mark Goldie

Gary Taylor

Shakespeare: The Later Years by Russell Fraser
Shakespeare: His Life, Work and Era by Dennis Kay
William Shakespeare: The Anatomy of an Enigma by Peter Razzell
Politics, Plague and Shakespeare’s Theatre: The Stuart Years by Leeds Barroll
Shakespeare Verbatim: The Reproduction of Authenticity and the 1790 Apparatus by Margreta de Grazia

Tom Shippey

The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer by Derek Pearsall
A Wyf ther was: Essays in Honour of Paule Mertens-Fonck edited by Juliette Dor
Hochon’s Arrow: The Social Imagination of 14th-Century Texts by Paul Strohm

Danny Karlin

Pause and Effect: An Introduction to the History of Punctuation in the West by M.B. Parkes

John Sutherland

The Two Forgers: A Biography of Harry Buxton Forman and Thomas James Wise by John Collins
Forgers and Critics: Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship by Anthony Grafton

Nicholas Wade

Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics by James Gleick

Eric Korn

Virtual Reality by Howard Rheingold
Cyberpunk by Katie Hafner and John Markoff
Glimpses of Heaven, Visions of Hell: Virtual Reality and its Implications by Barrie Sherman and Phil Judkins

Anthony Quinn

The Conclave by Michael Bracewell
Cock & Bull by Will Self

Pascale Petit

Poem: ‘My Mother’s Clothes’

John Lloyd

Diary: In Moscow

Ian Gregson

Landlocked by Mark Ford
The English Earthquake by Eva Salzman
Bleeding Heart Yard by William Scammell
The Game: Tennis Poems by William Scammell
Marconi’s Cottage by Medbh McGuckian

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