Diary

D J Taylor

Whatever Happened to the Establishment?

LR

France

Richard Vinen

He Paid For His Own Electricity

A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle

By Julian Jackson

Jonathan Meades

Man of Les People

Revolution Française: Emmanuel Macron and the Quest to Reinvent a Nation

By Sophie Pedder

Glenn Richardson

Architect of State

Francis I: The Maker of Modern France

By Leonie Frieda

LR

Neil Armstrong

La Vie en Prose

Notes from the Cévennes: Half a Lifetime in Provincial France

By Adam Thorpe

LR

Biography

Richard V Reeves

Prophet of Profit?

Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why it Matters

By Jesse Norman

Peter Thonemann

A Lover and a Fighter

Nemesis: Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens

By David Stuttard

Miranda Seymour

Hostess with the Mostest

Lady M: The Life and Loves of Elizabeth Lamb, Viscountess Melbourne 1751–1818

By Colin Brown

LR

Angus Hawkins

Prime Mediocrity No More

Lord Liverpool: A Political Life

By William Anthony Hay

LR

Frank McLynn

Landgrabber-in-Chief

The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation

By Colin G Calloway

LR

Daniel Matlin

A Dandy in Harlem

The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke

By Jeffrey C Stewart

LR

Art

Susan Owens

Traditionalists & Exhibitionists

The Royal Academy of Arts: History and Collections

By Robin Simon with MaryAnne Stevens (edd)

LR

Clare Griffiths

Earth, Wind & Colour

Peter Lanyon: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings and Three-Dimensional Works

By Toby Treves

History

Adrian Tinniswood

Death Became Him

White King: Charles I – Traitor, Murderer, Martyr

By Leanda de Lisle

LR

Jason Pearl

A Horse Performer Writes

Memoirs on the Life and Travels of Thomas Hammond, 1748–1775

By George E Boulukos (ed)

LR

Robert Irwin

There Be Despots

Unfabling the East: The Enlightenment’s Encounter with Asia

By Jürgen Osterhammel (Translated by Robert Savage)

LR

John Man

Khans & Stans

The History of Central Asia, Volume Four: The Age of Decline and Revival

By Christopher Baumer (Translated by Christopher W Reid)

LR

Literary Lives

David Wheatley

Yours Severely

The Collected Letters of Flann O’Brien

By Maebh Long (ed)

Kevin Jackson

The Critic’s Critic

The Ink Trade: Selected Journalism 1961–1993

By Anthony Burgess (Edited by Will Carr)

LR

Foreign Parts

Jurek Martin

Voice of America

The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House

By Ben Rhodes

LR

Oliver Balch

Rise of the Bollygarchs

The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age

By James Crabtree

Simon Heffer

Bland Tour

On Germany

By Giles MacDonogh

LR

Christopher Coker

Will China Rule the Waves?

Asian Waters: The Struggle over the Asia-Pacific and the Strategy of Chinese Expansion

By Humphrey Hawksley

LR

Fashion

Shahidha Bari

Doffing a Tricorne

Pretty Gentlemen: Macaroni Men and the Eighteenth-Century Fashion World

By Peter McNeil

Charlotte Bolland

Monarchs à la Mode

Tudor Fashion: Dress at Court

By Eleri Lynn

LR

Ramita Navai

Faith & Finery

Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress

By Elizabeth Bucar

LR

General

Richard Norton-Taylor

On Her Majesty’s Shady Service

Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy

By Rory Cormac

Martin Vander Weyer

A Bank of Wisdom

Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State

By Paul Tucker

LR

Julianne Schultz

Time to Let Go?

The Empire’s New Clothes: The Myth of the Commonwealth

By Philip Murphy

LR

William Brodrick

Court in the Headlights

In Your Defence: Stories of Life and Law

By Sarah Langford

LR

Sara Wheeler

No One is Immune

Natural Causes: Life, Death and the Illusion of Control

By Barbara Ehrenreich

LR

David Bodanis

Sightseeing Scientist

The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein: The Far East, Palestine & Spain, 1922–1923

By Ze'ev Rosenkranz (ed)

LR

Fiction

Pamela Norris

Seizing the Moment

Clock Dance

By Anne Tyler

Lucian Robinson

The Big Sleep

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

By Ottessa Moshfegh

LR

Adrian Nathan West

Black Comedy

Oreo

By Fran Ross

LR

Catriona Ward

Witching Hour

Night-Gaunts and Other Tales of Suspense

By Joyce Carol Oates

LR

Suzi Feay

Strange Connections

Days of Awe

By A M Homes

LR

Declan Ryan

Through the Looking-Glass

Asymmetry

By Lisa Halliday

LR

Elisa Segrave

Running Scared

Story of a Marriage

By Geir Gulliksen (Translated by Deborah Dawkin)

LR

Ian Critchley

Love in the Time of Colonies

So Much Life Left Over

By Louis de Bernières

LR

Imogen Woodberry

Searching for Silk

Testament

By Kim Sherwood

LR

Children's Books

Philip Womack

From King Arthur to Little Felling

David Almond,
Mal Peet,
Julia Gray,
Louise O'Neill,
John Matthews,
Meg Rosoff,
Andy Shepherd,
Cressida Cowell,
Mac Barnett

Crime

Jessica Mann

July 2018 Crime Round-Up

Bill Clinton & James Patterson,
Manda Scott,
Anthony Quinn,
Claire Douglas,
Elodie Harper,
Mark McCrum,
Jack Grimwood

Stephen Bates

Fit-Up Most Foul

Conan Doyle for the Defence: A Sensational Murder, the Quest for Justice and the World’s Greatest Detective Writer

Jul 2018

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