Pulpit

Sumit Paul-Choudhury

Words & Deeds

LR

Literary Lives

Seamus Perry

The Fox Aflame

Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life

By Jonathan Bate

Miranda Seymour

The Real Donna Inez

Lady Byron and Her Daughters

By Julia Markus

LR

Jeremy Lewis

Homeland Insecurity

The Hotel Years: Wanderings in Europe between the Wars

By Joseph Roth (Translated by Michael Hofmann)

LR

Matthew Parker

From Ian with Love

The Man with the Golden Typewriter: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters

By Fergus Fleming (ed)

LR

Kevin Jackson

The Third Man

Charles Williams: The Third Inkling

By Grevel Lindop

LR

Tim Redman

Songs of a Broken Man

Ezra Pound: Poet – A Portrait of the Man & His Work, Volume III, The Tragic Years 1939–1972

By A David Moody

LR

Spies

Gerard Russell

Inside the Shadow Theatre

Why Spy? The Art of Intelligence

By Brian T W Stewart & Samantha Newbery

LR

Adam Sisman

Agent Reckless

Stalin’s Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess

By Andrew Lownie

LR

Alan Judd

Spider in the Web

The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle

By Geoff Andrews

LR

David Stafford

The Decryption Factor

The Secret War: Spies, Codes & Guerrillas 1939–45

By Max Hastings

LR

Saints

Kate Cooper

All You Need Is Love

St Paul: The Misunderstood Apostle

By Karen Armstrong

LR

Anthony Kenny

Prodigal Son

Augustine: Conversions and Confessions

By Robin Lane Fox

LR

Foreign Parts

Matthew Green

After Yusuf

Boko Haram: Inside Nigeria’s Unholy War

By Mike Smith

John Keay

Regilding the Pagoda

Blood, Dreams and Gold: The Changing Face of Burma

By Richard Cockett

LR

John Carlin

Rainbow’s End

How Long Will South Africa Survive?

By R W Johnson

LR

Malise Ruthven

Diminishing Powers

The Tail Wags the Dog: International Politics and the Middle East

By Efraim Karsh

LR

Memoirs & Diaries

Jonathan Mirsky

Crossing the Yalu

Stars between the Sun and Moon: One Woman’s Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom

By Lucia Jang & Susan McLelland

The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story

By Hyeonseo Lee with David John

In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom

By Yeonmi Park with Maryanne Vollers

LR

Mark Bostridge

Love among the Paperbacks

A Notable Woman: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt

By Simon Garfield (ed)

LR

Ian Sansom

Cafe Culture

M Train

By Patti Smith

LR

Biography

Piers Brendon

Her Militant Tendency

Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume Two – Everything She Wants

By Charles Moore

Patrick Wilcken

Conqueror of Chimborazo

The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science

By Andrea Wulf

Simon J V Malloch

First among Equals

Augustus: The Biography

By Jochen Bleicken (Translated by Anthea Bell)

LR

Lara Feigel

Lili & Leni

Dietrich & Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives

By Karin Wieland (Translated by Shelley Frisch)

LR

Caroline Moorehead

Both Sides of the Lens

Lee Miller: A Woman's War

By Hilary Roberts (ed)

LR

James Buchan

Prudential Man

Hume: An Intellectual Biography

By James A Harris

LR

Charlie Campbell

Pushing the Boundaries

Amazing Grace: The Man Who Was WG

By Richard Tomlinson

Gilbert: The Last Years of W G Grace

By Charlie Connelly

LR

History

Daisy Dunn

Power to the People

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

By Mary Beard

LR

Dominic Green

What’s It To Do with the Price of Bread?

The Enlightenment: History of an Idea

By Vincenzo Ferrone (Translated by Elisabetta Tarantino)

LR

Tim Stanley

The Right Stuff

Selling Ronald Reagan: The Emergence of a President

By Gerard DeGroot

LR

Adam LeBor

Seeds of Discord

Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin & the Remaking of Israel

By Dan Ephron

LR

Simon Heffer

Guilty Parties

The German War: A Nation under Arms, 1939–45

By Nicholas Stargardt

LR

Poetry

Matthew Sperling

‘The Most Intelligent Entity on the Island’

Late Modernism and The English Intelligencer

By Alex Latter

Poems

By J H Prynne

LR

Ben Hutchinson

Heir to Heine

New Selected Poems

By Hans Magnus Enzensberger (Translated by David Constantine, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Michael Hamburger & Esther Kinsky)

LR

David Wheatley

On Form

Waiting for the Past

By Les Murray

40 Sonnets

By Don Paterson

Complete Poems

By R F Langley (Edited by Jeremy Noel-Tod)

LR

General

John Gray

Transmuting the Point

A Foot in the River: Why Our Lives Change – and the Limits of Evolution

By Felipe Fernández-Armesto

LR

Tom Fort

Meet Me in Crustacean

The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island

By Bill Bryson

LR

Catherine Peters

‘Stink and Darknesse’

London Fog: The Biography

By Christine L Corton

LR

Gillian Tindall

Track Changes

The Railways: Nation, Network and People

By Simon Bradley

LR

Jonathan Meades

Box of Delights

The Art of Invective: Selected Non-Fiction 1953–94

By Dennis Potter (Edited by Ian Greaves, David Rolinson & John Williams)

LR

Brian Dillon

Postcards from YouTube

How to See the World

By Nicholas Mirzoeff

LR

Jerry Brotton

Delft Touches

Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing

By Laura J Snyder

LR

Stephen Bates

Monuments Man

Lincoln’s Body: A Cultural History

By Richard Wightman Fox

LR

Silenced Voices

Lucy Popescu

Khadija Ismayilova

Fiction

Jude Cook

The Osborne Supremacy

Number 11

By Jonathan Coe

LR

Joan Smith

Death & the Orgasm

Fear of Dying

By Erica Jong

Jonathan Beckman

Cicero on the Run

Dictator

By Robert Harris

LR

Philip Maughan

In the Elastic Gloom

Pond

By Claire-Louise Bennett

LR

Cressida Connolly

Power of Conversation

Cockfosters

By Helen Simpson

Frank Brinkley

Where Angels Fear to Tread

Radiant State

By Peter Higgins

LR

David Collard

A Waking Dreamer

Playthings

By Alex Pheby

LR

Simon Rees

Baron Reborn

Scarpia

By Piers Paul Read

LR

Crime

Jessica Mann

November 2015 Crime Round-up

Umberto Eco (Translated by Richard Dixon),
Dreda Say Mitchell,
Ian Rankin,
Mari Hannah,
Robert Galbraith,
Andrew Martin,
Robin Cook,
Martin Edwards

Nov 2015

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