Diary

Tom Holland

What I Learned from L du Garde Peach

History

Margot Light

Apocalypse Averted

Armageddon and Paranoia: The Nuclear Confrontation

By Rodric Braithwaite

Piers Brendon

Spooked Out

Enemies Within: Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain

By Richard Davenport-Hines

Andrew Roberts

Peer Reviewed

Lansdowne: The Last Great Whig

By Simon Kerry

LR

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Glory Be to Cod

Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization

By Brian Fagan

LR

Donald Sassoon

Travels with My Encyclopedia

Beneath Another Sky: A Global Journey into History

By Norman Davies

LR

Biography

John Gribbin

Top of the Atomic Pile

The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age

By David N Schwartz

LR

Henrietta Garnett

An Eye for Greatness

The Uncommon Reader: A Life of Edward Garnett

By Helen Smith

LR

Lucy Lethbridge

Wagon Lit

Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

By Caroline Fraser

Duncan Wu

Piecing it All Together

Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

By Kathryn Harkup

In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein

By Fiona Sampson

LR

Wild Worlds

Alan Taylor

Borderline Personalities

The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England

By Graham Robb

Kevin Jackson

In the Court of the Seelie King

Magical Folk: British and Irish Fairies, 500 AD to the Present

By Simon Young & Ceri Houlbrook (edd)

LR

Nigel Andrew

Some Like it Hoot

Owl Sense

By Miriam Darlington

LR

Footprints

Miranda France

Lines in the Sand

Ages of Enlightenment

Julian Baggini

Never Had It So Good

Enlightenment Now: A Manifesto for Science, Reason, Humanism, and Progress

By Steven Pinker

Anthony Pagden

A Light unto the World?

The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775–1848

By Jonathan Israel

LR

Foreign Parts

Michael Burleigh

Lethal Intelligence

Directorate S: The CIA and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001–2016

By Steve Coll

LR

Richard Cockett

Better Dead Than Red

The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965–66

By Geoffrey B Robinson

Charlie Gammell

Clerical Errors

Iran: A Modern History

By Abbas Amanat

LR

Keshava Guha

Year of Infamy

1984: India's Guilty Secret

By Pav Singh

LR

Art

David Ekserdjian

Portrait of the Biographer

The Collector of Lives: Vasari and the Invention of Art

By Ingrid Rowland & Noah Charney

LR

Edward Behrens

Peering into the Shark Tank

Dark Side of the Boom: The Excesses of the Art Market in the Twenty-first Century

By Georgina Adam

LR

Nicholas Rankin

Art of War

Guernica: Painting the End of the World

By James Attlee

LR

Matters of Faith

Angela Tilby

Matricide Who Found God

The Minister and the Murderer: A Book of Aftermaths

By Stuart Kelly

LR

Stephen Bates

Papists’ Progress

The Keys and the Kingdom: The British and the Papacy from John Paul II to Francis

By Catherine Pepinster

LR

General

Alastair Campbell

Good Mood Guide

Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions

By Johann Hari

Patricia Duncker

Memory Slain

Forgetfulness: Making the Modern Culture of Amnesia

By Francis O'Gorman

LR

Wendy Moore

No Respect for Golf Courses

Rise Up, Women! The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes

By Diane Atkinson

Hearts and Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote

By Jane Robinson

Thomas W Hodgkinson

I’m Very Good at Sex

Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement: A Year Inside the Optimization Movement

By Carl Cederström & André Spicer

Anthony Daniels

For Good or Ill

The Beautiful Cure: Harnessing Your Body's Natural Defences

By Daniel M Davis

The Woman Who Fooled the World: Belle Gibson's Cancer Con, and the Darkness at the Heart of the Wellness Industry

By Beau Donelly & Nick Toscano

LR

Marcel Berlins

Mute Justice

Blood on the Page: A Murder, a Secret Trial and a Search for the Truth

By Thomas Harding

LR

Memoir

Andrew Lycett

Dreaming of Gondar

The Wife's Tale: A Personal History

By Aida Edemariam

LR

Memoirs

Anne Sebba

Flight of a Bookseller

No Place to Lay One's Head

By Françoise Frenkel (Translated by Stephanie Smee)

LR

Ada Coghen

Literary Fixes

The Reading Cure: How Books Restored My Appetite

By Laura Freeman

Educated

By Tara Westover

LR

Fiction

Keith Miller

Bosk Country

The Melody

By Jim Crace

Thomas Marks

Love’s Labour

The Only Story

By Julian Barnes

Anthony Cummins

Following the Male Gaze

Ferocity

By Nicola Lagioia (Translated by Antony Shugaar)

LR

Sam Kitchener

Taking Shape

Will Boast,
Emma Glass,
Jessie Greengrass,
Danny Denton

Josie Mitchell

Growing Pains

The Adulterants

By Joe Dunthorne

LR

Violet Hudson

Blasts from the Past

The Last of the Greenwoods

By Clare Morrall

LR

James Kidd

Off Road in the Outback

A Long Way from Home

By Peter Carey

LR

Stuart Walton

Mad World

Insane

By Rainald Goetz (Translated by Adrian Nathan West)

LR

Colette Shakib Cody

Death Becomes It

Frankenstein in Baghdad

By Ahmed Saadawi (Translated by Jonathan Wright)

LR

Crime

Jessica Mann

February 2018 Crime Round-up

Peter Adamson,
Mick Herron,
Kate Rhodes,
Paul Mendelson,
A J Finn,
Tony White,
Michael Baum,
Jo Spain,
C J Tudor

Feb 2018

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