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Hot off the Press

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Nero to Zero

Seneca: A Life

By Emily Wilson

Robin Lane Fox

Prince of Persia

Darius in the Shadow of Alexander

By Pierre Briant (Translated by Jane Marie Todd)

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Elephant Man

Hannibal: A Hellenistic Life

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Paul Johnson

Lust for Life

Universal Man: The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes

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Victoria Glendinning

Party People

A Curious Friendship: The Story of a Bluestocking and a Bright Young Thing

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John Gribbin

Unstable Particle

Half Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy

By Frank Close

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Writing Therapy

Late Fragments

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Girl in the Dark

By Anna Lyndsey

Lyndall Gordon

In & Out of Africa

Leaving Before the Rains Come

By Alexandra Fuller

Jeremy Lewis

Queen of the Slush Pile

Loose Connections: From Narva Maantee to Great Russell Street

By Esther Menell

Andy Martin

The Men in Grey Coats

The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

By David Graeber

Philip Roscoe

Caching In

Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money are Challenging the Global Economic Order

By Paul Vigna & Michael J Casey

Adam Roberts

Going for a Steal

The Looting Machine: Warlords, Tycoons, Smugglers, and the Systematic Theft of Africa’s Wealth

By Tom Burgis

Martin Vander Weyer

Inequality Street

How Good We Can Be: Ending the Mercenary Society and Building a Great Country

By Will Hutton

David Wheatley

Thanks for Sharing

One Thousand Things Worth Knowing

By Paul Muldoon

Kim Kardashian’s Marriage

By Sam Riviere

Human Work

By Sean Borodale

Tom Holland

Seizing the Fertile Crescent

In God’s Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire

By Robert G Hoyland

Saul David

Our Finest Hour?

Went the Day Well? Witnessing Waterloo

By David Crane

Waterloo: Great Battle Series

By Alan Forrest

Lucy Moore

When the Ship Goes Down

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

By Erik Larson

Norman Stone

What a Carve Up

The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, 1914–1920

By Eugene Rogan

Neil Gregor

The Dachau Indictment

Hitler’s First Victims and One Man’s Race for Justice

By Timothy W Ryback

David Motadel

Berlin to Bombay

Age of Entanglement: German and Indian Intellectuals Across Empire

By Kris Manjapra

Anne de Courcy

Of Bayonets & Bibis

The Tears of the Rajas: Mutiny, Money and Marriage in India 1805–1905

By Ferdinand Mount

Jonathan Mirsky

Peace Powwow

Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David

By Lawrence Wright

Donald Rayfield

The Big Freeze

Putin’s Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?

By Karen Dawisha

Red Notice: How I Became Putin’s No 1 Enemy

By Bill Browder

Robert Chandler

More than Mandelstam

On editing a new anthology of Russian Poetry

Owen Matthews

The Oligarchy Will Be Televised

Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia

By Peter Pomerantsev

Stephen Cave

Nothing New under the Sun

The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Inquiry into Human Freedom

By John Gray

John Sweeney

Kimnapped

A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Incredible True Story of North Korea and the Most Audacious Kidnapping in History

By Paul Fischer

Seamus Perry

Lives Less Ordinary

Why the Romantics Matter

By Peter Gay

Alwyn W Turner

No Bartók before Breakfast

Pinkoes and Traitors: The BBC and the Nation, 1974–1987

By Jean Seaton

Lesley Downer

Things that Change Shape in the Night

The Book of Yōkai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore

By Michael Dylan Foster

Mary Kenny

Pregnancy Pauses

The Birth of the Pill: How Four Pioneers Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution

By Jonathan Eig

In the Family Way: Illegitimacy Between the Great War and the Swinging Sixties

By Jane Robinson

Jonathan Rée

To Infinities & Beyond

Mathematics without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation

By Michael Harris

Andrew Greig

Names Writ on Water

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By Robert Macfarlane

Colin Tudge

Biosphere Blues

What Nature Does for Britain

By Tony Juniper

Allan Massie

Here Be Dragons

The Buried Giant

By Kazuo Ishiguro

Joanna Kavenna

Still Small Voices

All Days Are Night

By Peter Stamm (Translated by Michael Hofmann)

Toby Lichtig

Teenage Dirtbag

Dancing in the Dark (My Struggle: Volume Four)

By Karl Ove Knausgaard (Translated by Don Bartlett)

Jonathan Barnes

Friends Disunited

The Faithful Couple

By A D Miller

Suzi Feay

Papering over the Cracks

Widows and Orphans

By Michael Arditti

Frank Brinkley

Civil War

Neverhome

By Laird Hunt

James Kidd

Give Us a Wave

I Am Radar

By Reif Larsen

Nicolas Niarchos

Greek Tragedy

The Scapegoat

By Sophia Nikolaidou (Translated by Karen Emmerich)

Francesca Wade

Breathing Space

Be Safe I Love You

By Cara Hoffman