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Vol. 48 No. 12 · 9 July 2026

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William Davies

Burnham’s Political Economy

Letters

Camilla Toulmin, Jason Jawando, Jordan Osserman, Stuart O’Hara, Catherine McLoughlin, Tony Stuart, John Charlton, Alexander Jabbari, David Shengold, Roderick Chadwick

A.E. Stallings

Poem: ‘Auguries’

Colin Kidd

A Spy amongst Us: Daniel Defoe’s Secret Service and the Plot to End Scottish Independence by Marc Mierowsky. Yale, 416 pp., £25, February, 978 0 300 26016 8 Conflict and Loyalty: Jacobitism in Europe and Beyond by Allan I. MacInnes. Reaktion, 272 pp., £25, August 2025, 978 1 83639 093 0

Alice Hunt

Queen Catherine’s Court: Power and Rebellion in Restoration England by Sophie Shorland. Atlantic, 332 pp., £11.45, June 2025, 978 1 83895 641 7 Later Stuart Queens, 1660-1735: Religion, Political Culture and Patronage edited by Eilish Gregory and Michael C. Questier. Macmillan, 368 pp., £119.99, January 2025, 978 3 031 38815 6The Material World of a Restoration Queen Consort: The Privy Purse Accounts of Catherine of Braganza edited by Maria Hayward. Boydell and Brewer, 540 pp., £59.99, November 2024, 978 1 910653 14 2

Dani Garavelli

Short Cuts: Stealing from the SNP

Marina Warner

Celia Paul:  Works 1975-2025 edited by Michael Mack and Liv Constable-Maxwell. Mack, 543 pp., £150, February 2025, 978 1 915743 65 7

Seamus Perry

Ash Keys: New Selected Poems by Michael Longley. Cape, 182 pp., £13, July 2025, 978 1 78733 485 4

Patrick Cockburn

For and against a United Ireland by Fintan O’Toole and Sam McBride. Royal Irish Academy, 200 pp., £18, October 2025, 978 1 80205 035 6

Adéwálé Májà-Pearce

At MOWAA: Nigeria’s New Museum

Muhammad Shehada

‘I would never release him’

Jeremy Harding

Le Journal d’un prisonnier by Nicolas Sarkozy. Fayard, 216 pp., €20.90, December 2025, 978 2 213 73469 9

Susannah Clapp

At Dungeness

Raymond N. MacKenzie

Journey to the Moon by Jules Verne, translated by David Coward with William Butcher. Oxford, 353 pp., £9.99, August 2025, 978 0 19 894178 1

Colin Burrow

On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-It-All by Arnoud S.Q. Visser. Princeton, 333 pp., £25, November 2025, 978 0 691 25756 3

Christine Okoth

Part of the Story: Writings from Half a Century by Margaret Busby. Hamish Hamilton, 480 pp., £22, March, 978 0 241 68678 2

Owen Hatherley

Comrades in Art: Artists against Fascism 1933-43 by Andy Friend. Thames & Hudson, 360 pp., £40, September 2025, 978 0 500 02741 7

Tess Little

And So Did I by Malachi Whitaker. Boiler House, 181 pp., £14.99, September 2025, 978 1 915812 74 2

Blake Morrison

The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout. Viking, 202 pp., £18.99, May, 978 0 241 81430 7

Armando Ledezma

Diary: In Venezuela

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