Diary

Allan Massie

Aesthete with a Cause

History

David Abulafia

Classical Connections

The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found – A History in Seven Cities

By Violet Moller

Graham Seal

Shamans in Arms

A Supernatural War: Magic, Divination, and Faith during the First World War

By Owen Davies

LR

Norman Stone

Empire on Its Uppers

The World after the War: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945–1957

By Derek Leebaert

Lords of the Desert: Britain’s Struggle with America to Dominate the Middle East

By James Barr

LR

Timothy W Ryback

Crime & Impunity

Reckonings: Legacies of Nazi Persecution and the Quest for Justice

By Mary Fulbrook

LR

Tim Blanning

Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Elector

Time and Power: Visions of History in German Politics, from the Thirty Years’ War to the Third Reich

By Christopher Clark

LR

Art

Helen Hackett

Head and Shoulders above the Rest

Nicholas Hilliard: Life of an Artist

By Elizabeth Goldring

Philipp Blom

Out with Operettas, in with Office Chairs

Vienna 1900 Complete

By Christian Brandstätter, Daniela Gregori & Rainer Metzger (Translated by David H Wilson)

LR

The State We're In

Andrew Hussey

Jupiter Falls to Earth

Twilight of the Elites: Prosperity, the Periphery, and the Future of France

By Christophe Guilluy (Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise)

Michael Burleigh

Dreaming of Rhodesia?

Empires of the Mind: The Colonial Past and the Politics of the Present

By Robert Gildea

LR

Robert Mayhew

Eight Billion & Bust

The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World

By Paul Morland

Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline

By Darrell Bricker & John Ibbitson

LR

Roy Greenslade

Making the Headlines

Merchants of Truth: Inside the News Revolution

By Jill Abramson

LR

Biography

John Gray

No Apologies

Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History

By Richard J Evans

Blair Worden

Mightier Than the Sword

William Penn: A Life

By Andrew R Murphy

LR

Catherine Brown

She Had Sweets Named After Her

Teffi: A Life of Letters and of Laughter

By Edythe Haber

LR

John Gribbin

Of Coal & Calculus

Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton – Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel

By Benjamin Wardhaugh

LR

Netherworlds

Will Wiles

Strolling in the Deep

Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet

By Will Hunt

LR

Gillian Tindall

When the Thames Ran into the Rhine

Time Song: Searching for Doggerland

By Julia Blackburn

LR

Foreign Parts

Barnaby Crowcroft

Caravans & Cat Skins

The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages

By François-Xavier Fauvelle (Translated by Troy Tice)

A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution

By Toby Green

Adam Zamoyski

Waltz through Time

Last Days in Old Europe: Trieste ’79, Vienna ’85, Prague ’89

By Richard Bassett

LR

Alexander Maitland

From Yorkshire to Yalutorovsk

Thomas, Lucy and Alatau: The Atkinsons’ Adventures in Siberia and the Kazakh Steppe

By John Massey Stewart

LR

Memoirs

Agnès Poirier

He Showed the French a Thing or Two

The Existential Englishman: Paris Among the Artists

By Michael Peppiatt

Grub Smith

Epping & Grinding

Out of the Woods

By Luke Turner

LR

Lindy Burleigh

Going by the Book

All the Lives We Ever Lived

By Katharine Smyth

Girl with Dove

By Sally Bayley

This is Not a Book About Charles Darwin

By Emma Darwin

General

Kathleen Burk

When the Shine Came Off

The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World

By William L Silber

LR

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

False Starts

Origins: How the Earth Made Us

By Lewis Dartnell

LR

Christopher Hart

Heretic in the Pulpit

A Scribbler in Soho: A Celebration of Auberon Waugh

By Naim Attallah

Maureen Freely

We Need to Talk

Four Words for Friend: Why Using More Than One Language Matters Now More Than Ever

By Marek Kohn

LR

Anthony Daniels

Going Viral

Influenza: The Quest to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History

By Jeremy Brown

LR

Christopher Ross

Growth Industry

The Truth About Fat

By Anthony Warner

LR

Patrick Scrivenor

Paws for Thought

The Wolf Within: The Astonishing Evolution of the Wolf into Man’s Best Friend

By Bryan Sykes

LR

Poetry

Paul Bailey

Lines of Descent

Vertigo & Ghost

By Fiona Benson

The Built Moment

By Lavinia Greenlaw

Selected Poems

By Kathleen Jamie

LR

Cinema

Peter Conrad

Don’t Call Him Ingrid

Bergman: A Year in a Life

By Jane Magnusson (dir)

Fiction

Matt Rowland Hill

Brief Encounter

Dream Sequence

By Adam Foulds

Pamela Norris

Love Rectangle

Late in the Day

By Tessa Hadley

LR

Frank Lawton

Out of the Shadows

Victory

By James Lasdun

LR

Donald Rayfield

Griboyedov’s Last Journey

Death of the Vazir-Mukhtar

By Yuri Tynianov (Translated by Susan Causey)

LR

John Phipps

Secrets of the Potato Academy

The Spirit of Science Fiction

By Roberto Bolaño (Translated by Natasha Wimmer)

LR

Michael Delgado

End of the Affair

Slack-Tide

By Elanor Dymott

LR

Sam Kitchener

Becoming Brother Suleyman

Godsend

By John Wray

LR

Benn Sheridan

Growing Pains

Claire Adam,
Jamil Jan Kochai,
Alan Trotter,
Paula Saunders

Kathy O’Shaughnessy

Caught Red-Handed

Blood

By Maggie Gee

LR

Silenced Voices

Lucy Popescu

Ibrahim al-Husseini

Crime

Natasha Cooper

February 2019 Crime Round-up

David Mark,
James Lee Burke,
Susan Wilkins,
Alice Clark-Platts,
Chris Hammer,
Fiona Barton,
Vanessa Savage

Feb 2019

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