Pulpit

Dominic Green

Warning to a Theme

Biography

Donald Rayfield

Witness to a Century

Miłosz: A Biography

By Andrzej Franaszek (Edited & translated by Aleksandra & Michael Parker)

Lucy Lethbridge

Look into My Eyes

The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound

By Wendy Moore

Kenneth O Morgan

Last Seen in an Electric Canoe

Victor Grayson: The Man and the Mystery

By David Clark

LR

History

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Handing over the Keys to Paradise

The Moor's Last Stand: How Seven Centuries of Muslim Rule in Spain Came to an End

By Elizabeth Drayson

LR

Adrian Tinniswood

Grand Designs

The English Conquest of Jamaica: Oliver Cromwell's Bid for Empire

By Carla Gardina Pestana

Oliver Cromwell: England's Protector

By David Horspool

Richard Bourke

What’s the Big Idea?

Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism, 1830–1914: An Intellectual History

By Emily Jones

LR

Jonathan Keates

Talley Ho

Talleyrand in London: The Master Diplomat’s Last Mission

By Linda Kelly

LR

Keith Lowe

Memory Lane

Hannah’s Dress: Berlin 1904–2014

By Pascale Hugues (Translated by C Jon Delogu & Nick Somers)

LR

Art

Tanya Harrod

Outbreak of Talent

Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship

By Andy Friend

Ariane Bankes

Out of Parenthesis

David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet

By Thomas Dilworth

LR

Kevin Jackson

Shades of Sin

Red: The History of a Color

By Michel Pastoureau (Translated by Jody Gladding)

LR

Food

Felicity Cloake

Mind over Morsel

Gastrophysics: The New Science of Eating

By Charles Spence

LR

Simon Heffer

Choose Caerphilly

The Oxford Companion to Cheese

By Catherine Donnelly (ed)

LR

Christopher Hart

Serving up a Treat

The Plagiarist in the Kitchen

By Jonathan Meades

LR

House & Garden

John Guy

Crown Estates

Houses of Power: The Places that Shaped the Tudor World

By Simon Thurley

Tim Richardson

Whither the Snow House?

Gardens of Court and Country: English Design 1630–1730

By David Jacques

LR

Poetry

David Wheatley

If Soil Be Soul…

Simon Armitage,
Michael Haslam,
Helen Dunmore,
Ocean Vuong

Jan Morris

Painting in Verse

The Prelude

By William Wordsworth (Edited by James Engell & Michael D Raymond)

LR

The State We're In

Michael Burleigh

Crash of the Titans

The Fate of the West: The Battle to Save the World's Most Valuable Political Idea

By Bill Emmott

LR

Martin Vander Weyer

Vested Interest

The Spider Network: The Wild Story of a Maths Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History

By David Enrich

LR

Foreign Parts

Owen Matthews

Kremlin Watch

Who Lost Russia? How the World Entered a New Cold War

By Peter Conradi

LR

Jonathan Fenby

First Leap Forward

Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination

By Robert Bickers

LR

Richard Cockett

War without End

Breaking Sudan: The Search for Peace

By Jok Madut Jok

LR

Roderick Matthews

Growing Pains

Superfast Primetime Ultimate Nation: The Relentless Invention of Modern India

By Adam Roberts

LR

General

Douglas Murray

Brainboxes & Brownnoses

From Benito Mussolini to Hugo Chavez: Intellectuals and a Century of Political Hero Worship

By Paul Hollander

LR

Jonathan Beckman

The Great Hard Drive in the Sky

To Be a Machine: Adventures among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death

By Mark O'Connell

Karen Armstrong

Losing My Religion

The Kingdom

By Emmanuel Carrère (Translated by John Lambert)

LR

Tim Stanley

There Will Be Blood

Killers of the Flower Moon

By David Grann

LR

Nigel Andrew

Countryphile

The Village News: The Truth Behind England’s Rural Idyll

By Tom Fort

LR

Benedict Nightingale

All the World’s a Stage

Hamlet: Globe to Globe

By Dominic Dromgoole

LR

Fiction

Louis Amis

President Fracassus

Pussy

By Howard Jacobson

LR

James Purdon

A Matter of Record

White Tears

By Hari Kunzru

LR

Clare Clark

Murder Most Foul

The Evening Road

By Laird Hunt

LR

Houman Barekat

Corked Up

The Blood Miracles

By Lisa McInerney

LR

David Annand

End of the Road

Let Go My Hand

By Edward Docx

LR

Fiona Stafford

In Apricot Place

The Walworth Beauty

By Michèle Roberts

LR

Andrew Irwin

Village People

Reservoir 13

By Jon McGregor

LR

Cal Revely-Calder

End of the Affair

Ties

By Domenico Starnone (Translated by Jhumpa Lahiri

LR

Silenced Voices

Lucy Popescu

Rashad Ramazanov

LR

Crime

Stephen Bates

Writing Wrongs

Ludo and the Power of the Book: Ludovic Kennedy’s Campaigns for Justice

By Richard Ingrams

LR

Jessica Mann

April 2017 Crime Round-up

Jane Casey,
Denise Mina,
Guy Bolton,
Delphine de Vigan (Translated by George Miller),
William Shaw,
Donna Leon,
Philip Gwynne Jones

Apr 2017

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