Diary

Christopher Howse

Soaking up the Atmosphere

LR

Seafarers

Robert Mayhew

Vessel of Knowledge

Endeavour: The Ship and the Attitude That Changed the World

By Peter Moore

Douglas Smith

Before Oblomov

A World of Empires: The Russian Voyage of the Frigate 'Pallada'

By Edyta M Bojanowska

Ages of Empire

John Keay

From Kensington to Kathmandu

The Last Englishmen: Love, War and the End of Empire

By Deborah Baker

LR

Frank Prochaska

Transatlantic Tussles

The Lion and the Eagle: The Interaction of the British and American Empires 1783–1972

By Kathleen Burk

LR

Bijan Omrani

Great Game Changer

Afghanistan in the Age of Empires

By Farrukh Husain

LR

Sarah Bradford

Cousins in Arms

The Imperial Tea Party: Family, Politics and Betrayal – The Ill-fated British and Russian Royal Alliance

By Frances Welch

LR

Literary Lives

Frances Wilson

A Place in the Sun

The Warm South: How the Mediterranean Shaped the British Imagination

By Robert Holland

John Sutherland

The Hazards of his Love-Bed

Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to 'Good-bye to All That' (1895–1929)

By Jean Moorcroft Wilson

Emma Smith

Cottage Industry

Imagining Shakespeare’s Wife: The Afterlife of Anne Hathaway

By Katherine West Scheil

LR

Andrew Lycett

The Old Man & the Signorina

Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse

By Andrea di Robilant

LR

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Mum’s the Word

Writers and Their Mothers

By Dale Salwak (ed)

LR

Britain

Thomas Shippey

Move Over, St George

Edmund: In Search of England’s Lost King

By Francis Young

Piers Brendon

From Great Power to PLC

The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-century History

By David Edgerton

LR

James Sharpe

On the Road Again

Gypsies: An English History

By David Cressy

The Stopping Places: A Journey through Gypsy Britain

By Damian Le Bas

LR

Richard Cockett

United by a Common Language?

Shadows of Empire: The Anglosphere in British Politics

By Michael Kenny & Nick Pearce

LR

Money

Howard Davies

Après le Déluge

Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

By Adam Tooze

LR

Vicky Pryce

When Greed Was Good

The Bank That Lived a Little: Barclays in the Age of the Very Free Market

By Philip Augar

Cloak & Dagger

Simon Heffer

From Riga with Love

The Zinoviev Letter: The Conspiracy That Never Dies

By Gill Bennett

LR

Adrian Tinniswood

Hour of the She-Intelligencer

Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain

By Nadine Akkerman

LR

Michael S Goodman

Spying through History

The Secret World: A History of Intelligence

By Christopher Andrew

LR

Memoirs

Natasha Cooper

Dreaded Diagnoses

The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: A Memoir of Madness and Recovery

By Barbara K Lipska, with Elaine McArdle

Radiation Diaries: Cancer, Memory and Fragments of a Life in Words

By Janet Todd

Milkshakes and Morphine: A Memoir of Love and Loss

By Genevieve Fox

Lilian Pizzichini

To Be a Pilgrim

The Crossway

By Guy Stagg

LR

Felix Taylor

Living on the Edge

Where Shall We Run To? A Memoir

By Alan Garner

LR

Poetry

Paul Bailey

Chapters & Verse

The Long Take

By Robin Robertson

playtime

By Andrew McMillan

England: Poems from a School

By Kate Clanchy (ed)

LR

General

Dominic Sandbrook

Get with the Programme

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

By Yuval Noah Harari

John Pollard

Behind the Tiara

Absolute Power: How the Pope Became the Most Influential Man in the World

By Paul Collins

LR

Charles Foster

Pod Casts

Orca: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean’s Greatest Predator

By Jason M Colby

Spying on Whales: The Past, Present and Future of the World’s Largest Animals

By Nick Pyenson

Jane O'Grady

Confessions of a Love Doctor

The Incurable Romantic and Other Unsettling Revelations

By Frank Tallis

Lucy Moore

Loom & Bust

The Queen’s Embroiderer: A True Story of Paris, Lovers, Swindlers, and the First Stock Market Crisis

By Joan DeJean

LR

John Martin Robinson

Notes to Shelf

The Country House Library

By Mark Purcell

LR

Footprints

Jonathan Keates

Love at First Bite

LR

Fiction

Simon Baker

Missing in Action

Now We Shall Be Entirely Free

By Andrew Miller

Matt Rowland Hill

The Longest Night

History of Violence

By Edouard Louis (Translated by Lorin Stein)

Miranda France

Folk Industries

All Among the Barley

By Melissa Harrison

LR

Frank Brinkley

Modern Myths

Country

By Michael Hughes

Everything Under

By Daisy Johnson

Metamorphica

By Zachary Mason

LR

Ian Critchley

Don’t Mention the Movement

After the Party

By Cressida Connolly

LR

David Collard

Leopold the Second

Dedalus

By Chris McCabe

LR

Kathy O'Shaughnessy

Past Imperfect

Esi Edugyan,
Stella Tillyard,
Matthew Plampin,
Amy Sackville

Josie Mitchell

Leaps of Faith

The Female Persuasion

By Meg Wolitzer

LR

John Phipps

Fascist Parade

Perfidious Albion

By Sam Byers

LR

Rebecca Watson

Under the Volcano

In the Garden of the Fugitives

By Ceridwen Dovey

LR

Obituary

Natasha Cooper

In Memoriam

Jessica Mann, 1937-2018

Silenced Voices

Lucy Popescu

Ablajan Awut Ayup

Bookends

Alan Taylor

Give Me Fife

LR

Aug 2018

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