Diary

Sarah Moss

Notes from a Smaller Island

Us & Them

Martin Vander Weyer

More Than Just Giving

Philanthropy: from Aristotle to Zuckerberg

By Paul Vallely

David Willetts

Stemming the Brain Drain

Head, Hand, Heart: The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st Century

By David Goodhart

Thomas Kielinger

Mutti Knows Best

Why the Germans Do it Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country

By John Kampfner

Art

Candia McWilliam

All That Glisters

The Story of Scottish Art

By Lachlan Goudie

Tanya Harrod

He Allowed the Queen a Little Podium

The Lives of Lucian Freud: Fame – 1968–2011

By William Feaver

LR

Frances Spalding

Portrait of the Weird

The Art of Richard Eurich

By Andrew Lambirth

LR

The Himalayas

Bijan Omrani

River Deep, Mountain High

Himalaya: A Human History

By Ed Douglas

The Frozen River: Seeking Silence in the Himalaya

By James Crowden

LR

Rana Mitter

One Country, One System

Eat the Buddha: The Story of Modern Tibet Through the People of One Town

By Barbara Demick

Power & Politics

Timothy W Ryback

Bonfires of Reason

Burning the Books: A History of Knowledge Under Attack

By Richard Ovenden

Michael Burleigh

Beyond the Black Stuff

The New Map: Energy, Climate and the Clash of Nations

By Daniel Yergin

LR

Frances Cairncross

Computer Says Ike

If Then: How One Data Company Invented the Future

By Jill Lepore

LR

Alex Dean

A Law unto Themselves?

Enemies of the People? How Judges Shape Society

By Joshua Rozenberg

LR

United States

Dominic Sandbrook

Crocodile Diplomacy

Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s

By Simon Hall

Patricia T O'Conner

Tawk of the Town

You Talkin’ to Me? The Unruly History of New York English

By E J White

Piers Brendon

Jack the Lad

JFK: Volume I – 1917–1956

By Fredrik Logevall

LR

History

Levi Roach

Who’ll Take the Helm?

The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream

By Charles Spencer

Philip Parker

When Not in Rome

Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe

By Judith Herrin

LR

Peter Marshall

Caught in the Crossfire

The Jews and the Reformation

By Kenneth Austin

LR

Caroline Finkel

Master of the Universe?

God’s Shadow: The Ottoman Sultan Who Shaped the Modern World

By Alan Mikhail

Davíd Carrasco

Romancing the Scribe

Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs

By Camilla Townsend

Malcolm Murfett

Leaping into the Abyss

Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War – July 1937–May 1942

By Richard B Frank

LR

Daniel Todman

The Importance of Being Ernie

Ernest Bevin: Labour’s Churchill

By Andrew Adonis

LR

Notebook

Nicholas Shakespeare

Beer Lines

Poetry

Robert Chandler

Comrade, Shed No Tears

Russia is Burning: Poems of the Great Patriotic War

By Maria Bloshteyn (ed)

Vasili Tyorkin

By Alexander Tvardovsky (Translated from Russian by James Womack)

Wait for Me

By Konstantin Simonov (Translated from Russian by Mike Munford)

David Wheatley

Ever Upward

On Seamus Heaney

By R F Foster

LR

Suzannah V Evans

Seine & Sensibility

Paris: A Poem

By Hope Mirrlees

LR

General

Edith Hall

An Epidemic of Sense

The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates

By Robin Lane Fox

LR

Wendy Holden

They Moved the Goalposts

The Fleet Street Girls: The Women Who Broke Down the Doors of the Gentlemen’s Club

By Julie Welch

LR

Wendy Moore

Like Mother, Like Daughter

Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel

By Rachel Holmes

LR

Bradley Garrett

This Land is Your Land

The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines That Divide Us

By Nick Hayes

LR

Fiction

Keith Miller

Never without a Hitch

Inside Story

By Martin Amis

Richard Smyth

His Mad Captain

The All True Adventures (and Rare Education) of the Daredevil Daniel Bones

By Owen Booth

LR

J S Barnes

Rising Tides

Piranesi

By Susanna Clarke

Mordew

By Alex Pheby

Noonie Minogue

Love in the Graveyard

Jack

By Marilynne Robinson

LR

Anthony Cummins

September Comes Before July

Sisters

By Daisy Johnson

LR

Catriona Ward

Sucker Punch

The Octopus

By Tess Little

LR

Mia Levitin

Turning the Pages of Time

Must I Go

By Yiyun Li

LR

Ethan Croft

Doyle’s War

The Abstainer

By Ian McGuire

LR

Sophie Duncan

In All Honesty

The Lying Life of Adults

By Elena Ferrante (Translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein)

John Phipps

What the Babysitter Saw

Such a Fun Age

By Kiley Reid

LR

Tomiwa Owolade

Keyboard Warrior

Red Pill

By Hari Kunzru

LR

Gus Bambridge-Sutton

Three Little Harms

The Harpy

By Megan Hunter

LR

Crime

Natasha Cooper

September 2020 Crime Round-up

Steve Cavanagh,
Nicci French,
S R White,
Louise O’Neill,
Val McDermid,
Jennie Fields,
Harriet Tyce,
Antonia Hodgson,
D A Mishani (Translated from Hebrew by Jessica Cohen),
Michael Robotham

Sep 2020

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