Diary

Joanna Kavenna

The Call of the Wine-Dark Sea

Politics & Power

Richard V Reeves

It’s All About Us

Greed is Dead: Politics after Individualism

By Paul Collier & John Kay

Michael Burleigh

Out with Battleships, In with Bakeries

Soft Power: The New Great Game

By Robert Winder

LR

David Goodhart

A Tale of Two Parties

Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends

By Anne Applebaum

Jeremy Warner

The Pound & the Fury

Angrynomics

By Eric Lonergan & Mark Blyth

LR

The Life Aquatic

Fran Bigman

Different Strokes

Splash! 10,000 Years of Swimming

By Howard Means

Why We Swim

By Bonnie Tsui

Lido: A Dip into Outdoor Swimming Pools – the History, Design and People Behind Them

By Christopher Beanland

Helen Bynum

Slimy but Wholesome

The Seaweed Collector’s Handbook: From Purple Laver to Peacock’s Tail

By Miek Zwamborn (Translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison)

Patricia Fara

A Fishy Story

Merpeople: A Human History

By Vaughn Scribner

Philosophy

John Banville

The Pragmatist’s Progress

Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life

By John Kaag

Michael Tanner

Critical Lack of Theory

Time of the Magicians: The Invention of Modern Thought, 1919–1929

By Wolfram Eilenberger (Translated from German by Shaun Whiteside)

LR

Jonathan Rée

How to Win Friends & Save Humanity

Humankind: A Hopeful History

By Rutger Bregman (Translated from Dutch by Elizabeth Manton & Erica Moore)

LR

Ancient World

Philip Parker

The Barbarian at the Gate

Alaric the Goth: An Outsider’s History of the Fall of Rome

By Douglas Boin

David Abulafia

From Knossos to Cádiz

The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History

By Greg Woolf

LR

Paul Cartledge

Leonidas’s Last Stand

Thermopylae: Great Battles

By Chris Carey

LR

Footprints

Sean O'Brien

Hull Revisited

Yes Minister

Richard Vinen

Blood, Toil, Tears & Brexit

The Churchill Myths

By Steven Fielding, Bill Schwarz & Richard Toye

Abhimanyu Arni

From Bombay to the Green Benches

Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism

By Dinyar Patel

LR

Jane Ridley

He Loved Germany Too Much

Haldane: The Forgotten Statesman Who Shaped Modern Britain

By John Campbell

LR

History

Jonathan Meades

Lest We Forget

Prisoners of History: What Monuments to the Second World War Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves

By Keith Lowe

John Guy

Mystery of the Manuscript

The Book in the Cathedral: The Last Relic of Thomas Becket

By Christopher de Hamel

LR

Rory Cormac

Don’t Mention the Russians

Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare

By Thomas Rid

LR

Through the Keyhole

Will Wiles

Deceptively Bright, in an Up & Coming Area

Bunker: Building for the End Times

By Bradley Garrett

Thomas Blaikie

Peace Maker & Flower Arranger

Protocol: The Power of Diplomacy and How to Make It Work for You

By Capricia Penavic Marshall

Science

Roger Highfield

Smelling a Lab Rat

Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science

By Stuart Ritchie

LR

Henry Gee

A Soldier & a Scientist

A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J B S Haldane

By Samanth Subramanian

LR

Worldly Goods

James Delbourgo

Gardens of Emptiness

The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism

By Kyle Chayka

Inside the Head of a Collector: Neuropsychological Forces at Play

By Shirley M Mueller

Tim Blanning

From Teacups to Toilets

Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe

By Suzanne L Marchand

LR

Notebook

Susan Owens

Those Dark, Satanic Hills

The English landscape over time

Foreign Parts

Donald Rayfield

All the President’s Murderers

Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West

By Catherine Belton

Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem, and Russia’s Remaking of the West

By Luke Harding

Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia

By Joshua Yaffa

LR

Lawrence Rosen

For God & Party

Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump

By Sarah Posner

LR

Simon Hall

Out of Havana

The Cubans: Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times

By Anthony DePalma

LR

Seán Williams

Microstates, Money Secrets & Morality Tales

LR

General

Richard Canning

The Fight Goes On

The Pink Line: The World’s Queer Frontiers

By Mark Gevisser

LR

Kate Dossett

Jazz Age Rebels

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval

By Saidiya Hartman

LR

Charles Elliott

Borneo on Thames

Palace of Palms: Tropical Dreams and the Making of Kew

By Kate Teltscher

LR

Felicity Cloake

Food, Inglorious Food

Spoon-Fed: Why Almost Everything We’ve Been Told About Food is Wrong

By Tim Spector

Nigel Andrew

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Gyrfalcon

An Indifference of Birds

By Richard Smyth

The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think

By Jennifer Ackerman

Owls of the Eastern Ice: The Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl

By Jonathan C Slaght

Sport

Stephen Bates

Out for a Hundred

One Long and Beautiful Summer: A Short Elegy for Red-Ball Cricket

By Duncan Hamilton

That Will Be England Gone: The Last Summer of Cricket

By Michael Henderson

LR

Emma Griffin

Before the Offside Rule

This Sporting Life: Sport and Liberty in England, 1760–1960

By Robert Colls

LR

Fiction

Sarah Ditum

Season’s Heatings

Summer

By Ali Smith

Joan Smith

Hill without Bill

Rodham

By Curtis Sittenfeld

Kevin Power

A Laugh a Month

Antkind

By Charlie Kaufman

Melanie White

How the West was Written

August

By Callan Wink

LR

Ian Critchley

For His Eyes Only

The Sandpit

By Nicholas Shakespeare

LR

Ben Masters

The Long & Winding Road

Utopia Avenue

By David Mitchell

LR

Suzi Feay

A Change of Hart

The Wild Laughter

By Caoilinn Hughes

LR

Sam Sheldon

Inside the Ward Zone

The Pull of the Stars

By Emma Donoghue

LR

James Riding

Murder, They Spoke

The Golden Rule

By Amanda Craig

LR

Jay Gilbert

In the Time before Hangovers

The Liar's Dictionary

By Eley Williams

LR

Crime

Natasha Cooper

July / August 2020 Crime Round-up part 1

V B Grey,
Claire Allan,
Eve Smith,
Mark Billingham,
Sabine Durrant,
David Gilman,
Claire Askew

Natasha Cooper

July / August 2020 Crime Round-up part 2

Marc Elsberg (Translated from German by Simon Pare),
S J Watson,
Jessica Barry,
Alex Pavesi,
Lottie Moggach,
Victoria Gosling,
Aline Templeton

Jul 2020

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