Diary

Philip Hensher

A Spoonful of Elmore

Money

Ian Fraser

Master Criminals of the Universe

Sabotage: The Business of Finance

By Anastasia Nesvetailova & Ronen Palan

Martin Vander Weyer

From Barter to Barclays

More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy

By Philip Coggan

LR

Howard Davies

Off the Money

The Economists’ Hour: How the False Prophets of Free Markets Fractured Our Society

By Binyamin Appelbaum

LR

Literary Lives

Richard Davenport-Hines

Yours, Unfaithfully

The Dolphin Letters, 1970–1979: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell and Their Circle

By Saskia Hamilton (ed)

Sophie Duncan

She-Readers

Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives

By Helen Taylor

Jay Parini

Whose Life is It Anyway?

Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me – a Memoir

By Deirdre Bair

LR

History

Jerry White

Street-fighting Men

We Fight Fascists: The 43 Group and Their Forgotten Battle for Post-war Britain

By Daniel Sonabend

Dmitri Levitin

O Ye of Little Faith

Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt

By Alec Ryrie

Norma Clarke

Hutch Ado About Nothing

The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder: Mary Toft and Eighteenth-Century England

By Karen Harvey

Adrian Tinniswood

Doing the Lord’s Work

Providence Lost: The Rise & Fall of Cromwell’s Protectorate

By Paul Lay

LR

Richard Vinen

History Boys

Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis Namier

By D W Hayton

Sir John Plumb: The Hidden Life of a Great Historian

By Neil McKendrick

LR

Politics & Power

John Gray

How the West was Lost

The Light that Failed: A Reckoning

By Ivan Krastev & Stephen Holmes

LR

Ian Black

One Land, Two Peoples

The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance

By Rashid Khalidi

LR

Michael Burleigh

Murder on the Mind

From Russia with Blood: Putin’s Ruthless Killing Campaign and Secret War on the West

By Heidi Blake

LR

Exhibition

Peter Parker

Artists for Hire

Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company

By William Dalrymple (ed)

Memoir

Lucy Lethbridge

Out of Lanarkshire

Motherwell: A Girlhood

By Deborah Orr

LR

Wendy Moore

Life Support

Breaking & Mending: A Junior Doctor’s Stories of Compassion & Burnout

By Joanna Cannon

Dear Life: A Doctor’s Story of Love and Loss

By Rachel Clarke

LR

Stephen Bates

Jail Broke

A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner

By Chris Atkins

LR

General

Joan Smith

Ladies Who Punch

Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

By Helen Lewis

Margaret Gilmore

Kids These Days…

Designing Babies: How Technology is Changing the Ways We Create Children

By Robert L Klitzman

Sumit Paul-Choudhury

Riddle Me This

Cosmological Koans: A Journey to the Heart of Physical Reality

By Anthony Aguirre

LR

Jasper Becker

Getting to Know the Neighbours

Three Tigers, One Mountain: A Journey through the Bitter History and Current Conflicts of China, Korea and Japan

By Michael Booth

LR

Robert Mayhew

Play It Again, Vlad

The Lost Pianos of Siberia

By Sophy Roberts

LR

Simon Heffer

Stony Expressionists

The Mother of Beauty: On the Golden Age of English Church Monuments, and Other Matters of Life and Death

By Nigel Andrew

LR

Michael Prodger

About Suffering He Was Never Wrong

Short Life in a Strange World: Birth to Death in 42 Panels

By Toby Ferris

LR

Thomas Blaikie

Does She Wear One to Bed?

Hat: Origins, Language, Style

By Drake Stutesman

LR

Fiction

James Purdon

Rooms with a View

Strange Hotel

By Eimear McBride

Sarah Ditum

The Heat is On

Weather

By Jenny Offill

LR

Anthony Cummins

Woman of Many Parts

Actress

By Anne Enright

LR

Kevin Power

What Goes Up

Low

By Jeet Thayil

Claire Harman

Sense & Sisterhood

Miss Austen

By Gill Hornby

Gill Partington

It’s a Murder to Solve

Cain’s Jawbone: A Novel Problem

By Edward Powys Mathers

LR

Cornelius Dieckmann

Beyond a Joke

Tyll

By Daniel Kehlmann

LR

John Maier

A Fishy Tale

Braised Pork

By An Yu

LR

Michael Delgado

Going Underground

The Water Dancer

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

LR

Rebecca Cook

Surprise in the Post

QualityLand

By Marc-Uwe Kling (Translated by Jamie Lee Searle)

LR

Simon Baker

Summer of ’59

Here We Are

By Graham Swift

Crime

Natasha Cooper

February 2020 Crime Roundup

Daisy Waugh,
Nicola White,
Sarah Stovell,
Sam Lloyd,
Emily Elgar,
A D Miller,
Will Shindler,
Peter May,
Elly Griffiths,
C J Tudor

Feb 2020

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