Corridors of Power

William Kuhn

What the Butler Saw

The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor – The Truth and the Turmoil

By Tina Brown

LR

David Gauke

Treasury Island

The Chancellors: Steering the British Economy in Crisis Times

By Howard Davies

Patrick Marnham

Fruits of the Union

Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took over the UK

By Simon Kuper

LR

Art & Architecture

George Prochnik

Spectacle of Perpetual Motion

Franz Kafka: The Drawings

By Andreas Kilcher and Pavel Schmidt (edd)

Anthony Paletta

People’s Palaces in the Air

Stalin’s Architect: Power and Survival in Moscow

By Deyan Sudjic

LR

Norma Clarke

Paintbrushes & Broomsticks

Household Servants and Slaves: A Visual History, 1300–1700

By Diane Wolfthal

LR

Richard Canning

Modern Old Master

Glyn Philpot: Flesh and Spirit

By Simon Martin

Exhibition at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, until 23 October

LR

Planet Earth

Dan Saladino

Let Them Eat Fermented Protein

Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet

By George Monbiot

Peter Coates

In Deep Water

A Blue New Deal: Why We Need a New Politics for the Ocean

By Chris Armstrong

Rewilding the Sea: How to Save Our Oceans

By Charles Clover

LR

Biography & Memoir

Alan Ryan

Oui, the People

The Man who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville

By Olivier Zunz

Joanna Kavenna

The Bushmen’s Call

Dreaming the Karoo: A People Called the /Xam

By Julia Blackburn

LR

Rupert Christiansen

Dance Like There’s No Yesterday

La Nijinska: Choreographer of the Modern

By Lynn Garafola

LR

Adrian Tinniswood

Call the Dendrochronologist

A Home for All Seasons

By Gavin Plumley

LR

Photography

Brian Dillon

Shutter Island

Another Country: British Documentary Photography Since 1945

By Gerry Badger

LR

History

Helen Rappaport

Profiles in Courage

The Facemaker: One Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I

By Lindsey Fitzharris

LR

Richard Cockett

Operation Apfelstrudel

Alice’s Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother’s Cookbook

By Karina Urbach (Translated from German by Jamie Bulloch)

LR

Alan Allport

The Right to Lay Down Arms

Battles of Conscience: British Pacifists and the Second World War

By Tobias Kelly

LR

Caroline Moorehead

Rule of the Manganello

Blood and Power: The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism

By John Foot

LR

Ewen A Cameron

Beyond the Fringe

The Celts: A Sceptical History

By Simon Jenkins

LR

Philosophers

Tom Stern

Philosopher in Arms

Private Notebooks, 1914–1916

By Ludwig Wittgenstein (Edited and translated from German by Marjorie Perloff)

Emma Park

Out of Aristotle’s Shadow

Looking for Theophrastus: Travels in Search of a Lost Philosopher

By Laura Beatty

Cinema

Peter Conrad

Seventy Years On

Elizabeth: A Portrait in Part(s)

By Roger Michell (dir)

Poetry

Hilary Davies

Poems of the Underground

The Lascaux Notebooks

By Jean-Luc Champerret (Edited and translated from French by Philip Terry)

General

Michael Javen Fortner

Street Fighting Girl

Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in New York City

By Andrea Elliott

Salley Vickers

Bodies of Evidence

The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind

By Noga Arikha

LR

Bernard Porter

This Sundered Isle

Geography is Destiny: Britain and the World, a 10,000-Year History

By Ian Morris

LR

Se-Woong Koo

Lost Seoul

Shrimp to Whale: South Korea from the Forgotten War to K-Pop

By Ramon Pacheco Pardo

LR

Thomas Blaikie

How Deep is Your Basement?

Serious Money: Walking Plutocratic London

By Caroline Knowles

LR

Bijan Omrani

On the Road

Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World

By Anthony Sattin

LR

Ben Hutchinson

Game, Set & Match

The Last Days of Roger Federer, and Other Endings

By Geoff Dyer

LR

Fiction

Cal Flyn

Lunge, Twist, Pose

Yoga

By Emmanuel Carrère (Translated from French by John Lambert)

Donald Rayfield

Love in a Cold City

Deceit

By Yuri Felsen (Translated from Russian by Bryan Karetnyk)

LR

John Maier

Getting Medieval

Lapvona

By Ottessa Moshfegh

LR

Elizabeth Howcroft

It’s a Woman’s World

The Men

By Sandra Newman

LR

Emma Garman

Tiger Daughter

Fight Night

By Miriam Toews

LR

Kate Webb

Common Ground

The White Family

By Maggie Gee

The Red Children

By Maggie Gee

LR

Michael Delgado

Don’s Progress

Tiepolo Blue

By James Cahill

LR

Joseph Owen

Hoop Dreams

The Sidekick

By Benjamin Markovits

LR

Fiction in Brief

Paul Bailey

Out of Time

The Kingdom of Sand

By Andrew Holleran

LR

Eoghan Smith

Smalltown Boy

Brouhaha

By Ardal O’Hanlon

LR

Laurel Berger

French Connection

Discretion

By Faïza Guène (Translated from French by Sarah Ardizzone)

LR

Crime

Natasha Cooper

June 2022 Crime Round-up

Graham Bartlett,
Stephanie Merritt,
G W Shaw,
Chris Pavone,
Karin Slaughter,
Mark Billingham,
Michael Robotham,
Sabine Durrant,
Fiona Erskine

Jun 2022

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