Pulpit

Alex Preston

Hitting the Right Note

LR

Foreign Parts

James Barr

Can’t We All Shake Hands?

Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East

By Gerard Russell

Oleg Gordievsky

Kiev Conundrum

Ukraine Crisis: What It Means for the West

By Andrew Wilson

LR

Ben Hutchinson

Going Deutsch

Germany: Memories of a Nation

By Neil MacGregor

LR

Literary Lives

Jonathan Sumption

Escape from Aldgate

The Poet’s Tale: Chaucer and the Year that Made the Canterbury Tales

By Paul Strohm

James Womack

At the Top of His Voice

Mayakovsky: A Biography

By Bengt Jangfeldt (Translated by Harry D Watson)

Matthew Sperling

Preening their Feathers

Poets and the Peacock Dinner: The Literary History of a Meal

By Lucy McDiarmid

LR

Benedict Nightingale

Stabbed to Our Depths

Eugene O’Neill: A Life in Four Acts

By Robert M Dowling

LR

History

Norman Stone

Crimes of the Kaiser

Wilhelm II: Into the Abyss of War and Exile 1900–1941

By John C G Röhl (Translated by Sheila de Bellaigue and Roy Bridge)

LR

Helen Castor

The First Poll Tax Riots

England, Arise: The People, the King and the Great Revolt of 1381

By Juliet Barker

LR

Leslie Mitchell

Conveniently in Love

Mr and Mrs Disraeli: A Strange Romance

By Daisy Hay

LR

Peter Marshall

Mommers vs Mommers

Cunegonde’s Kidnapping: A Story of Religious Conflict in the Age of Enlightenment

By Benjamin J Kaplan

LR

Jerry Brotton

To Mozambique & Beyond

The Visitor: André Palmeiro and the Jesuits in Asia

By Liam Matthew Brockey

LR

Blair Worden

Into the Howling Wilderness

Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans

By Malcolm Gaskill

LR

Biography & Memoir

David Pryce-Jones

Leader of the Freed World

Havel: A Life

By Michael Zantovsky

LR

Christopher Andrew

From Russia with Lev

Stalin’s Agent: The Life & Death of Alexander Orlov

By Boris Volodarsky

LR

Jane Ridley

Passage from India

Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary

By Anita Anand

LR

Juliet Gardiner

At Squiffy’s Side

Margot at War: Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912–1916

By Anne de Courcy

LR

Lucy Moore

In Vogue

Elsa Schiaparelli: A Biography

By Meryle Secrest

LR

Henry Hitchings

Hit Them Hard

The Second Half

By Roy Keane (with Roddy Doyle)

LR

Stephen Bates

Altar Ego

Fathomless Riches: Or How I Went from Pop to Pulpit

By Richard Coles

LR

Consuming Passions

Frances Wilson

What’s Cooking?

The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity

By Sandra M Gilbert

LR

Raymond Sokolov

Linguine Franca

The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu

By Dan Jurafsky

LR

Jonathan Beckman

Come Dine with Me

Yotam Ottolenghi,
Itamar Srulovich & Sarit Packer,
Sam & Sam Clark,
Jamie Oliver,
Rosie Ramsden,
Heston Blumenthal,
Sophia Waugh

Poetry

Peter Scupham

Making & Being

New Selected Poems

By P J Kavanagh

Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth

By Ruth Padel

The Stairwell

By Michael Longley

LR

Tom Fleming

Concluding Couplets

Poetry Notebook 2006–2014

By Clive James

LR

Art

Jonathan Keates

Renaissance Innocent

Ciao, Carpaccio! An Infatuation

By Jan Morris

John-Paul Stonard

From Vienna to the Warburg

Meditations on a Heritage: Papers on the Work and Legacy of Sir Ernst Gombrich

By Paul Taylor (ed)

Shadows: The Depiction of Cast Shadows in Western Art

By E H Gombrich

LR

Charles Darwent

Dog Days

A Painter’s Progress: A Portrait of Lucian Freud

By David Dawson

LR

James Stourton

Exhibition Match

Rendez-vous with Art

By Philippe de Montebello & Martin Gayford

LR

Philip Mansel

Sultans of Bling

Turquerie: An Eighteenth-Century European Fantasy

By Haydn Williams

LR

Examined Life

Stephen Cave

An Athenian in Silicon Valley

Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won’t Go Away

By Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

LR

John Gray

Life in the Fast Lane

Speed Limits: Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left

By Mark C Taylor

LR

Andy & Jack Martin

Father & Son

Why Grow Up?

By Susan Neiman

LR

Science

Sumit Paul-Choudhury

The Indefinite Particle

The Quantum Moment: How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty

By Robert P Crease & Alfred Scharff Goldhaber

LR

Tom Fort

They Come Over Here…

Where Do Camels Belong? The Story and Science of Invasive Species

By Ken Thompson

LR

Henry Gee

Crossing the Wires

Arrival of the Fittest: Solving Evolution’s Greatest Puzzle

By Andreas Wagner

LR

Music & Film

Rupert Christiansen

Cold Comforts

Schubert’s Winter Journey: Anatomy of an Obsession

By Ian Bostridge

Franz Schubert: The Complete Songs

By Graham Johnson

John Sutherland

Go, Gadget

The Selected Letters of Elia Kazan

By Albert J Devlin & Marlene J Devlin (edd)

LR

D J Taylor

The Show Must Go On

Constant Lambert: Beyond the Rio Grande

By Stephen Lloyd

LR

General

Brian Dillon

Pains in the Neck

Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found

By Frances Larson

Jeremy Lewis

Hats off to Harold

The New Yorker Book of the 40s: Story of a Decade

By Henry Finder & Giles Harvey (edd)

LR

Martyn Frampton

We Can Work It Out

Talking to Terrorists: How to End Armed Conflicts

By Jonathan Powell

LR

Helen DeWitt

Girl Power

The Secret History of Wonder Woman

By Jill Lepore

LR

Robert Chesshyre

Lonely at the Bottom

Hand to Mouth: The Truth About Being Poor in a Wealthy World

By Linda Tirado

LR

Rachel Holmes

Sister Acts

Women in Dark Times

By Jacqueline Rose

LR

Jonathan Mirsky

Flesh & Fur

The Great Grisby: Two Thousand Years of Exceptional Dogs

By Mikita Brottman

LR

Lay of the Land

Thomas Shippey

The Hearth of the Matter

Home: A Time Traveller’s Tales from Britain’s Prehistory

By Francis Pryor

LR

Gillian Tindall

Lines of Site

Britannia Obscura: Mapping Hidden Britain

By Joanne Parker

LR

Jonathan Meades

The Architects’ Adversary

Nairn's London

By Ian Nairn (Afterword by Gavin Stamp)

Children's Fiction

Philip Womack

December 2014 Children’s Books Round-up

Tim Hall,
Toby Ibbotson,
Kate Saunders,
Neil Gaiman,
Sarah Courtauld,
Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre,
A F Harrold,
Frances Hardinge,
Keren David,
Marcus Sedgwick

Bad Sex Report

Jonathan Beckman

Twitching Fairy Penguin

The Age of Magic

By Ben Okri

Fiction

Tim Martin

About an Author

10:04

By Ben Lerner

LR

David Collard

Stores of Memory

Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas

By Patrick Modiano (Translated by Mark Polizzotti)

LR

Arabella Friesen

To Live & Die in Naples

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

By Elena Ferrante (Translated by Ann Goldstein)

LR

Keith Miller

Bypassing a Jackpot

The Peripheral

By William Gibson

LR

Lucian Robinson

Bar Room Philosophy

The Sermon on the Fall of Rome

By Jérôme Ferrari (Translated by Geoffrey Strachan)

LR

Elspeth Barker

A Horse Called Patrick

Honeydew

By Edith Pearlman

LR

Larry Ryan

Double Trouble

Curtain Call

By Anthony Quinn

LR

Catherine Brown

The Russian Saki

Subtly Worded

By Teffi (Translated by Anne Marie Jackson, Robert & Elizabeth Chandler, Clare Kitson, Irina Steinberg & Natalia Wase)

LR

Leonora Craig Cohen

Siri Says No

I Refuse

By Per Petterson (Translated by Don Bartlett)

LR

Oscar Rickett

Songs of the Earth

Woody Guthrie and the Dust Bowl Ballads

By Nick Hayes

LR

Silenced Voices

Lucy Popescu

Mahvash Sabet

Crime

Andrew Lycett

Murder Most Fouled-Up

A Different Class of Murder: The Story of Lord Lucan

By Laura Thompson

LR

Jessica Mann

December 2014 Crime Round-Up

Elly Griffiths,
Joseph Kanon,
Olivier Truc,
Teresa Waugh,
Patricia Cornwell,
Peter May

Dec 2014

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