http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/john_mullan en http://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2008/02/author-literary-curiosity http://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2008/02/author-literary-curiosity Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:00:00 GMT John Mullan John Mullan recalls that curiosity and concealment have a grand literary history

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2007/02/robert-walpole-pearce-britain http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2007/02/robert-walpole-pearce-britain Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:00:00 GMT John Mullan The Great Man: Sir Robert Walpole - scoundrel, genius and Britain's first prime minister Edward Pearce Jonathan Cape, 496pp, £25 ISBN 0224071815

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200611060048 http://www.newstatesman.com/200611060048 Mon, 06 Nov 2006 12:00:00 GMT John Mullan City of Laughter: sex and satire in 18th-century London Vic Gatrell Atlantic Books, 696pp, £30 ISBN 1843543214 Our national obsession with political sleaze and celebrity misbehaviour is nothing new. John Mullan on the scurrilous ancestors of Scarfe, Steadman and Spitting Image

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200605010044 http://www.newstatesman.com/200605010044 Mon, 01 May 2006 12:00:00 GMT John Mullan Incredible Bodies Ian McGuire Bloomsbury, 372pp, £12.99 ISBN 0747578478

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200603200049 http://www.newstatesman.com/200603200049 Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:00:00 GMT John Mullan The Helmet of Horror Victor Pelevin Canongate, 288pp, £12 ISBN 1841957054

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