Lucy Hughes-Hallett

The Crying Game

Thomas Shippey

At Home With Odin

Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age

By Eleanor Barraclough

Tim Stanley

Kindred Spirits

American Bloods: The Untamed Dynasty That Shaped a Nation

By John Kaag

Robert Service

Into the Dustbin of History

To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism

By Sean McMeekin

Richard Vinen

Tories on the Home Front

Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill, and the Second World War

By Kit Kowol

William G Naphy

Go Forth and Self-Deny

Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity

By Diarmaid MacCulloch

Fiona Sampson

Tell Me the Truth About Love

The Island: W H Auden and the Last of Englishness

By Nicholas Jenkins

Henry Hitchings

The Play’s the Thing

A Piece of Work: Playing Shakespeare & Other Stories

By Simon Russell Beale

Stephen Smith

Art of Rebellion

Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin

By Sue Prideaux

William Whyte

Rich in Meaning

Money Talks: Art, Society & Power

Richard Ovenden

Blessed are the Copyists

History in Flames: The Destruction and Survival of Medieval Manuscripts

By Robert Bartlett

Kerry Brown

Last True Believer in Beijing

The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China

By Michael Sheridan

Roger Highfield

With Gaia Abandon

The Many Lives of James Lovelock

By Jonathan Watts

Richard Davenport-Hines

Hostess with the Mostess

Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Seduction, Intrigue and Power

By Sonia Purnell

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Smoke & Mirrors

The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years

By Sunil Amrith

Henry Gee

Spore to Spore

Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind: In Pursuit of Remarkable Mushrooms

By Richard Fortey

Druin Burch

Costing the Earth

Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation

By Hugh Warwick

The Lie of the Land: Who Really Cares for the Countryside?

By Guy Shrubsole

Martin Vander Weyer

Age of Cloud Capitalism

The Corporation in the 21st Century: Why (Almost) Everything We are Told about Business is Wrong

By John Kay

Howard Davies

Bad Investment

Money: A Story of Humanity

By David McWilliams

Stuart Jeffries

I, Algorithm

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

By Yuval Noah Harari

Frances Wilson

Best of Frenemies

The Virago Book of Friendship

By Rachel Cooke (ed)

Philip Parker

Once Upon a Time in the West

Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction

By Jerry Brotton

Randy Boyagoda

The Woman Who Knew Too Much

Creation Lake

By Rachel Kushner

Morten Høi Jensen

Out of Sorts

The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story

By Olga Tokarczuk (Translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones)

Zuzanna Lachendro

Unhappy Valley

The Mighty Red

By Louise Erdrich

Louis Rogers

Friends Reunited

Tell Me Everything

By Elizabeth Strout

George Cochrane

From Kinshasa with Love

Gabriel’s Moon

By William Boyd

Mia Levitin

A Turn for the Worse

Small Rain

By Garth Greenwell

Bartolomeo Sala

Not with a Bang but a Whimper

Annihilation

By Michel Houellebecq (Translated from French by Shaun Whiteside)

Ella Fox-Martens

Girl at War

Earthly Creatures

By Stevie Davies

Zsofia Paulikovics

Yours Shamelessly

Dear Dickhead

By Virginie Despentes (Translated from French by Frank Wynne)

Tommy Gilhooly

Cry Freedom

A Kid from Marlboro Road

By Edward Burns

Lucy Thynne

My Brilliant Cousin

Mina’s Matchbox (Translated from Japanese by Stephen Snyder)

By Yoko Ogawa

Joseph Williams

Bad Blood

The Women Behind the Door

By Roddy Doyle

Natasha Cooper

September 2024 Crime Round-up

• Peter May, 
• Louise Minchin, 
• Jane Thynne, 
• Attica Locke, 
• Louise Swanson, 
• Fiona Barton, 
• Joël Dicker (Translated from French by Robert Bononno), 
• Simon Gaul

Sara J Charles

In the Beginning was the Hide