Pulpit

Vybarr Cregan-Reid

Run, Writer, Run

LR

History

John Adamson

Divided We Stand

The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe’s History

By Peter H Wilson

LR

Norman Stone

Decorating the Eagle’s Nest

Hitler at Home

By Despina Stratigakos

LR

Donald Sassoon

iPod Therefore I Am

Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-first

By Frank Trentmann

LR

Charles King

Carving Up the East

The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908–1923

By Sean McMeekin

LR

Keith Lowe

Raiding History

Coventry: Thursday, 14 November 1940

By Frederick Taylor

LR

Andrew Roberts

Emerald Guile

Churchill and Ireland

By Paul Bew

LR

Caroline Moorehead

‘Save Europe Now’

The Bitter Taste of Victory: In the Ruins of the Reich

By Lara Feigel

LR

Hot Topics

Michael Burleigh

Unobtainium

The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age

By David S Abraham

Harriet Sergeant

Migrant Metropolis

This Is London: Life and Death in the World City

By Ben Judah

LR

Martin Vander Weyer

Just Giving?

No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy

By Linsey McGoey

LR

Robert Colls

Who Do You Think You Are?

Social Class in the 21st Century

By Mike Savage, with Niall Cunningham, Fiona Devine, Sam Friedman, Daniel Laurison, Lisa McKenzie, Andrew Miles, Helene Snee & Paul Wakeling

LR

Uneasy Lies the Head

Douglas Smith

Bloody Relations

The Romanovs: 1613–1918

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

Paul Lay

Car Park King

Richard III: A Ruler and His Reputation

By David Horspool

LR

Tim Stanley

Sworn In, Worn Out

The American President: From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton

By William E Leuchtenburg

LR

Anthony Mockler

Negusa Negast

King of Kings: The Triumph and Tragedy of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia

By Asfa-Wossen Asserate (Translated by Peter Lewis)

LR

Sarah Bradford

Kings of Spin

Royalty Inc: Britain's Best-Known Brand

By Stephen Bates

LR

Biography & Memoir

Wendy Moore

‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’

When Breath Becomes Air

By Paul Kalanithi

Andrew Hussey

The Great Escape

33 Days

By Léon Werth (Translated by Austin Denis Johnston)

LR

Ian Sansom

Pride of Pinkerton’s

The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett

By Nathan Ward

LR

Dominic Green

Eye for a Joke

Groucho Marx: The Comedy of Existence

By Lee Siegel

LR

Edward Short

Pen for Hire

The Speechwriter: A Brief Education in Politics

By Barton Swaim

LR

Amy Sackville

Far from the Madding Crowd

The Outrun

By Amy Liptrot

LR

Art

Brian Dillon

The World is Burning

Portraits: John Berger on Artists

By John Berger (Edited by Tom Overton)

LR

John Brewer

Ars Longa…

The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velázquez

By Laura Cumming

LR

Ancient World

Peter Jones

After Democritus

Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World

By Tim Whitmarsh

Allan Massie

Kiss Me, Clodia

Catullus’ Bedspread: The Life of Rome’s Most Erotic Poet

By Daisy Dunn

LR

Richard Seaford

The First Efflorescence

The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece

By Josiah Ober

LR

General

John Gribbin

Tyrannosaurus, Ex

Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe

By Lisa Randall

LR

Lucy Moore

Stitches in Time

The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives

By Lynn Knight

LR

Michael Eisen

Mindfulness over Matter

The Buddha Pill: Can Meditation Change You?

By Miguel Farias & Catherine Wikholm

LR

Anna Reid

Between West & East

The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine

By Serhii Plokhy

In Wartime: Stories from Ukraine

By Tim Judah

Thinking with the Blood: Scenes from Ukraine’s Revolution

By Owen Matthews

LR

Patrick Scrivenor

Lions & Tigers & Bears

The Georgian Menagerie: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century London

By Christopher Plumb

Menagerie: The History of Exotic Animals in England 1100–1837

By Caroline Grigson

LR

Leo McKinstry

Fancy Flight

Concorde: The Rise and Fall of the Supersonic Airliner

By Jonathan Glancey

LR

Michael Eaude

Lodging in the Memory

Life Embitters

By Josep Pla (Translated by Peter Bush)

LR

Silenced Voices

Lucy Popescu

Ashraf Fayadh

Crime

Jessica Mann

February 2016 Crime Round-up

Eva Dolan,
Philip Kerr,
Rob McCarthy,
David Mark,
Kate Medina,
Alafair Burke ,
Stuart MacBride,
John Nightingale,
Sophie Littlefield

Jessica Mann

Pride of Inverness

Josephine Tey: A Life

By Jennifer Morag Henderson

LR

Fiction

Keith Miller

Instrument of the State?

The Noise of Time

By Julian Barnes

D J Taylor

A Life Less Extraordinary

Thomas and Mary: A Love Story

By Tim Parks

LR

Paul Bailey

Not for Sissies

Scary Old Sex

By Arlene Heyman

LR

Joanna Kavenna

Paying It back

Shylock Is My Name

By Howard Jacobson

LR

Suzi Feay

High Water Mark

When the Floods Came

By Clare Morrall

LR

Sarah A Smith

Someone to Watch Over Me

The Long Room

By Francesca Kay

Exposure

By Helen Dunmore

LR

Nick Holdstock

Out for the Count

This Census-Taker

By China Miéville

LR

Luke Davies

After Gwangju

Human Acts

By Han Kang (Translated by Deborah Smith)

LR

Cassie Davies

I Remember

The Man Without a Shadow

By Joyce Carol Oates

LR

Feb 2016

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