Diary

Alberto Manguel

In Search of Libraries Past

Literary Lives

Lucy Lethbridge

Blazing Their Own Trails

In Byron’s Wake: The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron’s Wife and Daughter, Annabella Milbanke & Ada Lovelace

By Miranda Seymour

John Sutherland

She Called It a Puny Town

Through Belgian Eyes: Charlotte Brontë’s Troubled Brussels Legacy

By Helen MacEwan

Joanna Kavenna

Note on Self

Free Woman: Life, Liberation and Doris Lessing

By Lara Feigel

LR

Ian Sansom

A Life in Letters

The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer’s Tale

By James Atlas

LR

Footprints

Donald Rayfield

In Search of Raskolnikov

Bohemians

Kevin Jackson

Plenty of Sex & Nowhere to Sit

Left Bank: Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940–50

By Agnès Poirier

Tom Stammers

Mixed Impressions

Renoir: An Intimate Biography

By Barbara Ehrlich White

Adrian Tinniswood

Not a Straight Line in Sight

Baroque Between the Wars: Alternative Style in the Arts, 1918–1939

By Jane Stevenson

Jane Rye

Hidden Figures

Joseph Gray’s Camouflage: A Memoir of Art, Love and Deception

By Mary Horlock

LR

Royalty

David Gelber

Exhibition of Power

Charles I: King and Collector

By Desmond Shawe-Taylor & Per Rumberg (edd)

History

Jonathan Healey

How We Learned to Love the Arquebus

The English People at War in the Age of Henry VIII

By Steven Gunn

LR

Edward Chaney

The Art of Politics

The Medici

By Mary Hollingsworth

LR

Christopher Coker

Peace Offering

The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War

By Benn Steil

Leo McKinstry

Shoot for the Sky

The Birth of the RAF, 1918: The World’s First Air Force

By Richard Overy

LR

Neil Armstrong

Earning Their Wings

Secret Pigeon Service: Operation Columba, Resistance and the Struggle to Liberate Europe

By Gordon Corera

The State We're In

Kate Adie

On the Road to Raqqa

Two Sisters: Into the Syrian Jihad

By Asne Seierstad (Translated by Seán Kinsella)

Stephen Bates

Court in the Crossfire

The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It’s Broken

By The Secret Barrister

LR

Robert Colls

Working Five to Nine

Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain

By James Bloodworth

LR

Biography

Rupert Christiansen

The Bear Who Made Beautiful Music

Debussy: A Painter in Sound

By Stephen Walsh

LR

Lawrence Rosen

Magus of the Maghreb

Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography

By Robert Irwin

LR

Allan Massie

He Took the Path of Most Resistance

The Saboteur: True Adventures of the Gentleman Commando Who Took on the Nazis

By Paul Kix

LR

Tim Stanley

Jokester-in-Chief

Lincoln’s Sense of Humor

By Richard Carwardine

LR

Foreign Parts

Bernard Wasserstein

Promised Land or Basket Case?

In Search of Israel: The History of an Idea

By Michael Brenner

Richard Cockett

Selfish Capital

A Line in the River: Khartoum, City of Memory

By Jamal Mahjoub

LR

Jonathan Keates

Not So Serene

If Venice Dies

By Salvatore Settis (Translated by André Naffis-Sahely)

David Lewis-Williams

There Be Foragers

Affluence without Abundance: The Disappearing World of the Bushmen

By James Suzman

LR

General

John Gray

Mind the Gap

The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures

By Antonio Damasio

Wendy Moore

The Past is Another Person

Somebody I Used to Know

By Wendy Mitchell

By Anna Wharton

LR

Anna Minton

Metropolis Now

Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City

By Richard Sennett

LR

Uta Frith

Cracks in the Glass Ceiling

A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War

By Patricia Fara

LR

Jonathan Meades

Root & Branch Reform

New Forest: The Forging of a Landscape

By Hadrian Cook

Tom Fort

Angler of Incident

The Old Man and the Sand Eel

By Will Millard

Fiction

Anthony Cummins

Meet the Neighbours

The Friendly Ones

By Philip Hensher

LR

Malcolm Forbes

Lives of the Poet

The Executor

By Blake Morrison

LR

Costica Bradatan

Muted Witnesses

The Book of Whispers

By Varujan Vosganian (Translated by Alistair Ian Blyth)

LR

Davina Langdale

Ocean Red

Woman at Sea

By Catherine Poulain (Translated by Adriana Hunter)

LR

Adam Roberts

Reality Bites

The Great Chain of Unbeing

By Andrew Crumey

LR

David Annand

Cold Comforts

Upstate

By James Wood

LR

Simon Baker

Village Voices

The Western Wind

By Samantha Harvey

LR

Nakul Krishna

Carnivorous New Flowers

The Book of Chocolate Saints

By Jeet Thayil

LR

Silenced Voices

Lucy Popescu

Dareen Tatour

Crime

Jessica Mann

March 2018 Crime Round-Up

Ngaio Marsh & Stella Duffy,
Edward Wilson,
Roz Watkins,
Sarah Bailey,
Alex Gray,
Arnaldur Indriđason,
Robert Goddard

Bookends

Adam Douglas

College Confessional

Mar 2018

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