Diary

D J Taylor

Dusting off the Crystal Ball

LR

Thinkers

Dmitri Levitin

Going for Gold

Newton the Alchemist: Science, Enigma, and the Quest for Nature’s ‘Secret Fire’

By William R Newman

Donald Rayfield

When Knowledge Met Power

Catherine & Diderot: The Empress, the Philosopher, and the Fate of the Enlightenment

By Robert Zaretsky

Paul Cartledge

Cherchez la Femme?

Socrates in Love: The Making of a Philosopher

By Armand D’Angour

LR

Wives of Windsor

David Gelber

Ivy Killer & Consort

The Quest for Queen Mary

By James Pope-Hennessy (Edited by Hugo Vickers)

Queen Mary: The Official Biography

By James Pope-Hennessy

Stephen Bates

The Woman Who Wouldn’t be Queen

Untitled: The Real Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor

By Anna Pasternak

LR

Foreign Parts

Sean McMeekin

The Place that Launched a Thousand Ships

Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation

By Roderick Beaton

Robert Irwin

Nursed on the Blood of Black Lambs

Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires

By Tim Mackintosh-Smith

LR

Timothy Brook

Before the Islands Disappear Again

Empire of the Winds: The Global Role of Asia’s Great Archipelago

By Philip Bowring

LR

Jonathan Keates

Neither France Nor Germany

Lotharingia: A Personal History of Europe’s Lost Country

By Simon Winder

LR

Art & Architecture

Christopher Turner

A Very Romantic Modernist

Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus

By Fiona MacCarthy

Bauhaus Goes West: Modern Art and Design in Britain and America

By Alan Powers

James Hamilton

Those Damn Gentlemen

Thomas Gainsborough: The Portraits, Fancy Pictures and Copies after Old Masters

By Hugh Belsey

Michael Prodger

Turning Over a New Canvas

Restoration: The Fall of Napoleon in the Course of European Art, 1812–1820

By Thomas Crow

LR

Tom Stammers

Not Set in Stone

Classical Art: A Life History from Antiquity to the Present

By Caroline Vout

LR

History

Marc Mulholland

Line of Troubles

The Border: The Legacy of a Century of Anglo-Irish Politics

By Diarmaid Ferriter

LR

Christopher Coker

The Long Arm of the Chairman

Maoism: A Global History

By Julia Lovell

LR

Catherine Hanley

Born Almost to Rule

Daughters of Chivalry: The Forgotten Children of Edward I

By Kelcey Wilson-Lee

Russell Shorto

An Uncommon Cold

Nature’s Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age Transformed the West and Shaped the Present

By Philipp Blom

LR

Richard Overy

Trial by Firestorm

Bombing the City: Civilian Accounts of the Air War in Britain and Japan, 1939–1945

By Aaron William Moore

LR

Biography

Christopher Andrew

The Spy Who Loved Himself

An Impeccable Spy: Richard Sorge, Stalin’s Master Agent

By Owen Matthews

Simon Heffer

Death in the Car Park

The Man Who Was Saturday: The Extraordinary Life of Airey Neave

By Patrick Bishop

LR

Charles Elliott

Desperately Seeking Sakura

‘Cherry’ Ingram: The Englishman Who Saved Japan’s Blossoms

By Naoko Abe

LR

Poetry

Michael Hulse

More than Mack the Knife

The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht

By Tom Kuhn & David Constantine (edd)

General

Tobie Mathew

Power Failure

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster

By Adam Higginbotham

Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future

By Kate Brown

LR

Joan Smith

Female Unfriendly

Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

By Caroline Criado Perez

Sarah Ditum

Mum’s the Word

Mother: An Unconventional History

By Sarah Knott

LR

Charles Foster

More Morphic Resonances

Ways to Go Beyond and Why They Work

By Rupert Sheldrake

Jeremy Clarke

Grey Balls of Fire

This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism

By Ashton Applewhite

LR

Fiction

Cressida Connolly

A Carpet Runs Through It

Improvement

By Joan Silber

Helon Habila

African Epic

Black Leopard, Red Wolf

By Marlon James

LR

Lucian Robinson

Lessons from Mad Pete

Lanny

By Max Porter

LR

Frank Brinkley

Ill Behaviour

Pearl and Other Stories

By Julia Darling (Edited by Tamzin Mackie)

You Know You Want This

By Kristen Roupenian

Mouthful of Birds

By Samanta Schweblin (Translated by Megan McDowell)

Ian Critchley

On the Road

The Parade

By Dave Eggers

LR

Elisa Segrave

Family Fortunes

The Snakes

By Sadie Jones

LR

Carol Rumens

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman

Memories of the Future

By Siri Hustvedt

LR

Amanda Craig

Sugar & Spice

Gingerbread

By Helen Oyeyemi

LR

Children's Books

Philip Womack

Spectres & Steam Trains

Sunny and the Ghosts

By Alison Moore

Enchantée

By Gita Trelease

The Steam Whistle Theatre Company

By Vivian French

Crime

Natasha Cooper

March 2019 Crime Round-up

Tana French,
Don Winslow,
Alex Michaelides,
Jane Harper,
Elly Griffiths,
C J Tudor,
Alan Judd,
Holly Watt

Mar 2019

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