Diary

Philip Hensher

The Old Devil

State of the Nation

Richard Vinen

The Miner’s Lament

Black Gold: The History of How Coal Made Britain

By Jeremy Paxman

The Shadow of the Mine: Coal and the End of Industrial Britain

By Huw Beynon & Ray Hudson

James Blitz

You Can Go Your Own Way

My Secret Brexit Diary: A Glorious Illusion

By Michel Barnier (Translated from French by Robin Mackay)

LR

Anoosh Chakelian

How the Red Wall Turned Blue

Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour’s Lost England

By Sebastian Payne

Biography & Diaries

Richard Davenport-Hines

Unquiet American

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries – 1938–43

By Simon Heffer (ed)

LR

Miranda Seymour

Fashion & Fascism

Miss Dior: A Story of Courage and Couture

By Justine Picardie

LR

John Gribbin

1921: A Space Odyssey

The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann

By Ananyo Bhattacharya

LR

Martin Vander Weyer

He’s Probably Not Going to Be Your Pal

The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley’s Pursuit of Power

By Max Chafkin

Foreign Parts

Owen Bennett-Jones

Fear & Loathing in the Himalayas

Kashmir at the Crossroads: Inside a 21st-Century Conflict

By Sumantra Bose

Noonie Minogue

Actium in the Age of Plastic

A Thing of Beauty: Travels in Mythical and Modern Greece

By Peter Fiennes

LR

Tim Summers

Caught Between Two Empires

The Gate to China: A New History of the People’s Republic & Hong Kong

By Michael Sheridan

LR

Crown & Sceptre

Tim Blanning

The King Who Lost America

George III: The Life and Reign of Britain’s Most Misunderstood Monarch

By Andrew Roberts

Jane Ridley

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Queen

The Secret Royals: Spying and the Crown, from Victoria to Diana

By Richard J Aldrich & Rory Cormac

LR

Anna Groundwater

Winter in Bohemia

Elizabeth Stuart: Queen of Hearts

By Nadine Akkerman

LR

Art

William Whyte

From Swinish Luxury to Socialism?

William Morris

By Anna Mason (ed)

LR

James Hall

When the Saints Went Marching In

The Italian Renaissance Altarpiece: Between Icon and Narrative

By David Ekserdjian

LR

Philosophy

Steven Nadler

Letting Go of God

Spinoza’s Religion: A New Reading of the Ethics

By Clare Carlisle

Literary Lives

Dennis Duncan

Man of Lettrisme

Speaking East: The Strange and Enchanted Life of Isidore Isou

By Andrew Hussey

Ben Hutchinson

The Eternal Emigrant

Speak, Silence: In Search of W G Sebald

By Carole Angier

LR

Roberta Klimt

Paradise Reimagined

Making Darkness Light: The Lives and Times of John Milton

By Joe Moshenska

LR

History

Dmitri Levitin

How Philology Changed the World

The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities: An Intellectual History, 1400–1800

By Christopher S Celenza

LR

Lucy Wooding

The View from Across the Channel

Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588–1688

By Clare Jackson

Rebecca Earle

Priests on the Run

Fugitive Freedom: The Improbable Lives of Two Impostors in Late Colonial Mexico

By William B Taylor

LR

General

Frances Wilson

Battle of the Sexes Resumed

The Heroine with 1,001 Faces

By Maria Tatar

Jonathan Sumption

What Did Liberalism Do for Us?

Whatever Happened to Tradition? History, Belonging and the Future of the West

By Tim Stanley

LR

James Stourton

Bring Out the Lions

Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the Post-War Country House

By Adrian Tinniswood

LR

Linda Porter

Spirit of Parchment

Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers

By Mary Wellesley

LR

Fiction

Keith Miller

New Kids on the Block

Crossroads

By Jonathan Franzen

Leo Robson

Love in the Time of Crisis

Beautiful World, Where Are You

By Sally Rooney

Frank Lawton

The Meat of the Matter

Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth

By Wole Soyinka

LR

Sheena Joughin

Remembrance of Husbands Past

Oh William!

By Elizabeth Strout

LR

Anthony Cummins

Trains of Thought

A Passage North

By Anuk Arudpragasam

LR

Paul Abbott

His New Struggle

The Morning Star

By Karl Ove Knausgaard (Translated from Norwegian by Martin Aitken)

LR

N J Stallard

Hands, Face, Space

Burntcoat

By Sarah Hall

LR

Houman Barekat

Steady as He Goes

A Calling for Charlie Barnes

By Joshua Ferris

Ian Critchley

The SPAD’s Tale

Making Nice

By Ferdinand Mount

LR

Kevin Power

Across 125th Street

Harlem Shuffle

By Colson Whitehead

LR

Notebook

Alan Taylor

Westward Ho!

LR

Fiction in Brief

Susie Mesure

Mother Knows Best

Are We Having Fun Yet?

By Lucy Mangan

LR

Ferelith Hordon

Magic Touch

Wildlord

By Philip Womack

LR

Hannah Williams

Prawns & Parasols

After the Sun

By Jonas Eika (Translated from Danish by Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg)

LR

Crime

Natasha Cooper

October 2021 Crime Round-up

Peter Papathanasiou,
Catherine Cooper,
Nuala Ellwood,
Ant Middleton,
Nicci French,
Brian McGilloway,
John Banville,
Will Dean,
Leonora Nattrass

Oct 2021

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