Pulpit

Frances Wilson

The Lost Art of Table Talk

LR

History

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Narrative Arks

The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood

By Irving Finkel

John Adamson

Scots at the Top

Rebellion: Britain’s First Stuart Kings, 1567–1642

By Tim Harris

LR

David Gelber

What a Beard-Off

The Field of Cloth of Gold

By Glenn Richardson

LR

James Hall

High Minds, Low Lives

The Ugly Renaissance

By Alexander Lee

William Anthony Hay

Stakes of War

The Men Who Lost America: British Command during the Revolutionary War and the Preservation of the Empire

By Andrew O'Shaughnessy

LR

Biography & Letters

Charles Allen

Dancing Queen

Farzana: The Tempestuous Life and Times of Begum Sumru

By Julia Keay

LR

Leslie Mitchell

Wit & Whiggery

One Hundred Letters from Hugh Trevor-Roper

By Richard Davenport-Hines & Adam Sisman (edd)

LR

Anne Sebba

Three Graces

Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power

By Claudia Renton

LR

Rich Pickings

Martin Vander Weyer

False Profits

The Firm: The Inside Story of McKinsey

By Duff McDonald

Michael Burleigh

My Precious

Gold: The Race for the World’s Most Seductive Metal

By Matthew Hart

LR

Literary Lotharios

Ian Sansom

All Beat Up

William S Burroughs: A Life

By Barry Miles

Taking Shots: The Photography of William S Burroughs

By Patricia Allmer & John Sears

LR

Richard Canning

Yours Unfaithfully

The Animals: Love Letters Between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy

By Katherine Bucknell (ed)

The Man Who Was Norris: The Life of Gerald Hamilton

By Tom Cullen

LR

Roger Kimball

Naked & Read

Norman Mailer: A Double Life

By J Michael Lennon

LR

Paul Johnson

Immodest Proposals

Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World

By Leo Damrosch

LR

Foreign Parts

Piers Brendon

Propping up the Roof of the World

Tibet: An Unfinished Story

By Lezlee Brown Halper & Stefan Halper

LR

Bernard Porter

Great Danes?

The Almost Nearly Perfect People: The Truth about the Nordic Miracle

By Michael Booth

Charles Shaar Murray

Doomed Poets in Romantic Squalor

Inside the Dream Palace: The Life and Times of New York’s Legendary Chelsea Hotel

By Sherill Tippins

LR

Art & Architecture

Frances Spalding

Painting the Blues

Dear Winifred: Christopher Wood Letters to Winifred and Ben Nicholson 1926–1930

By Anne Goodchild (ed)

Ben Nicholson, Winifred Nicholson, Christopher Wood, Alfred Wallis, William Staite Murray: Art and Life 1920–1931

By Jovan Nicholson with essays by Sebastiano Barassi and Julian Stair

Tanya Harrod

Harnessing the Peacock

Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake

By Daniel E Sutherland

LR

David Collard

Bard of Subtopia

Ian Nairn: Words in Place

By Gillian Darley & David McKie (edd)

LR

Imperial China

Jonathan Mirsky

Song of Exile

Emperor Huizong

By Patricia Buckley Ebrey

LR

Jerry Brotton

Roads to Xanadu

Mr Selden’s Map of China: The Spice Trade, a Lost Chart and the South China Sea

By Timothy Brook

General

Matthew Green

The Scars of War

Thank You for Your Service

By David Finkel

John Gray

Jesus Will Set You Free

Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism

By Larry Siedentop

David Nirenberg

Hell is Other Peoples

Racisms: From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century

By Francisco Bethencourt

LR

Alexander Maitland

An Elephant Never Forgotten

Jumbo: The Unauthorised Biography of a Victorian Sensation

By John Sutherland

Richard Overy

Risky Business

Strategy: A History

By Lawrence Freedman

LR

Kevin Jackson

But Is It a Colour?

The Story of Black

By John Harvey

Blue Mythologies: Reflections on a Colour

By Carol Mavor

LR

Simon Heffer

This Dissected Isle

Irrepressible Adventures with Britannia: Personalities, Politics and Culture in Britain

By Wm Roger Louis (ed)

LR

Stuart Kelly

Our Friends in the North

Acts of Union and Acts of Disunion: What has held the UK together – and what is dividing it?

By Linda Colley

Bannockburns: Scottish Independence and Literary Imagination, 1314–2014

By Robert Crawford

LR

Christopher Bray

The Sumpsons

The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets

By Simon Singh

LR

Letter from Croatia

Maya Jaggi

Yugonostalgia

LR

Silenced Voices

Lucy Popescu

Freedom of Expression in Russia

Fiction

D J Taylor

When Harry Met Mamoon

The Last Word

By Hanif Kureishi

LR

Keith Miller

Reds in Bed

Dissident Gardens

By Jonathan Lethem

LR

Allan Massie

Here, There & Everywhere

The Foundling Boy

By Michel Déon (Translated by Julian Evans)

LR

Ben Hutchinson

Weimarana

Tales from the Underworld

By Hans Fallada (Translated by Michael Hofmann)

LR

Memphis Barker

To the Ends of the Earth

Fiona McFarlane,
Audrey Magee,
Robert Lautner,
Tim Walker

LR

Lucian Robinson

Will’s War

In the Wolf's Mouth

By Adam Foulds

LR

Laura Gallagher

Papa and His Girls

Mrs Hemingway

By Naomi Wood

LR

Simon Baker

Johnsey Alone

The Thing About December

By Donal Ryan

LR

Jonathan McAloon

Aftershocks

The Free

By Willy Vlautin

LR

Francesca Wade

The Missing

Carthage

By Joyce Carol Oates

LR

Crime

Jessica Mann

February 2014 Crime Round-up

Tom Rob Smith,
M J Carter,
Yrsa Sigurdardóttir (Translated by Victoria Cribb),
James Naughtie,
Peter Swanson,
Louise Doughty,
Luke Delaney,
Isabel Allende,
Frances Fyfield,
Robert Ryan

Feb 2014

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