Biography

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

Lofty Company

The Great Nadar: The Man Behind the Camera

By Adam Begley

Selina Hastings

Courting Danger

A B Mitford and the Birth of Japan as a Modern State: Letters Home

By Robert Morton

LR

Catherine Peters

Come Dine with We

The Greedy Queen: Eating with Victoria

By Annie Gray

LR

Soviet Union

Donald Rayfield

Emptying the Bread Basket

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine

By Anne Applebaum

Robert Service

The Last Comrade

Gorbachev: His Life and Times

By William Taubman

The Four Winds

Jan Morris

Let It Blow

Where the Wild Winds Are: Walking Europe’s Winds from the Pennines to Provence

By Nick Hunt

Sages

Dmitri Levitin

Deifying Gravity

Priest of Nature: The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton

By Rob Iliffe

LR

John Gray

Evolving Ideas

Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker

By A N Wilson

LR

Julian Baggini

Meeting of Minds

The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship that Shaped Modern Thought

By Dennis C Rasmussen

LR

History

Christopher Andrew

The Big Chill

The Cold War: A World History

By Odd Arne Westad

LR

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Water World

On the Ocean: The Mediterranean and the Atlantic from Prehistory to AD 1500

By Barry Cunliffe

Philip Parker

Norse to Be Reckoned With

Viking Britain: An Exploration

By Thomas Williams

LR

Robert Irwin

Knight Fever

The Templars: The Rise and Fall of God’s Holy Warriors

By Dan Jones

Jonathan Meades

Rogues’ Gallery

The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914

By Simon Heffer

LR

Richard Davenport-Hines

File Bodies

The Secret Twenties: British Intelligence, the Russians and the Jazz Age

By Timothy Phillips

LR

Genesis

Diane Purkiss

Origin of the Species?

The Rise and Fall of Adam & Eve

By Stephen Greenblatt

Finance

Richard Cockett

King of Kowloon

Architect of Prosperity: Sir John Cowperthwaite and the Making of Hong Kong

By Neil Monnery

LR

Martin Vander Weyer

Brought to Account

Till Time’s Last Sand: A History of the Bank of England 1694–2013

By David Kynaston

LR

Rebels

Sarah Ditum

Life as Art

After Kathy Acker: A Literary Biography

By Chris Kraus

Blood and Guts in High School

By Kathy Acker

Alex Blasdel

Affairs to Remember

The Best Minds of My Generation: A Literary History of the Beats

By Allen Ginsberg (Edited by Bill Morgan)

LR

Memoirs

John Sutherland

The Needle & the Damage Done

Mayhem: A Memoir

By Sigrid Rausing

LR

Valerie Grove

Portrait of the Author

A Life of My Own

By Claire Tomalin

LR

General

James Womack

Glossed in Translation

Late Essays

By J M Coetzee

LR

Adrian Woolfson

Raising Awareness

Into the Grey Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death

By Adrian Owen

LR

John Sweeney

Aftershocks

Ghosts of the Tsunami

By Richard Lloyd Parry

LR

Owen Bennett-Jones

Losing Battle

Unwinnable: Britain’s War in Afghanistan 2001–2014

By Theo Farrell

LR

Fiona Stafford

Leaves of Life

Oak and Ash and Thorn: The Ancient Woods and New Forests of Britain

By Peter Fiennes

LR

Douglas Murray

Almanac of Ignominy

The Lies of the Land: A Brief History of Political Dishonesty

By Adam Macqueen

LR

Fiction

D J Taylor

Nero to Zero

The Golden House

By Salman Rushdie

Anne Chisholm

Trial by Fire

The Burning Girl

By Claire Messud

LR

Adrian Nathan West

Ongören on My Mind

The Red-Haired Woman

By Orhan Pamuk (Translated by Ekin Oklap)

Jonathan Barnes

Skeletons in the Closet

The Wardrobe Mistress

By Patrick McGrath

LR

Sarah A Smith

Identity Crisis

Home Fire

By Kamila Shamsie

LR

Kevin Power

Jungle Fever

Madness Is Better than Defeat

By Ned Beauman

LR

Tom Williams

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Reconciliation

By Guy Ware

LR

Patrick Skene Catling

Bar-Room Bawling

Smile

By Roddy Doyle

LR

David Collard

Living Hells

Darker with the Lights On

By David Hayden

LR

Jude Cook

Daddy Issues

Elmet

By Fiona Mozley

LR

Children's Books

Wizards & Werewolves

Katherine Rundell,
Cressida Cowell,
Chris Priestley,
Erin Nelsen Parekh

Silenced Voices

Lucy Popescu

Hasip Yanlıç

Crime

September 2017 Crime Round-Up

Henning Mankel (Translated by Marlaine Delargy),
Karin Slaughter,
Francis Pryor,
E V Harte,
Vince Cable,
Nicci French,
Israel Centeno (Translated by Guillermo Parra),
Lynda La Plante,
Mike Ripley

Sep 2017

Contributors