Diary

Dennis Duncan

Fill in the Blanks

LR

Art

Stephen Smith

Lines of Insight

Mondrian: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute

By Nicholas Fox Weber

Peter Davidson

Painter to the Devil

Creator of Nightmares: Henry Fuseli’s Art and Life

By Christopher Baker

LR

Tanya Harrod

Rags to Riches

Winifred Nicholson: Cumbrian Rag Rugs

By Jovan Nicholson

LR

Biography

Howard Davies

Will Someone Think of the Barristers?

Man-Devil: The Mind and Times of Bernard Mandeville, the Wickedest Man in Europe

By John Callanan

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey

Atlas Snoozed

Ayn Rand: Writing a Gospel of Success

By Alexandra Popoff

LR

Richard Davenport-Hines

Prime Ministers I Have Known

Clarissa: Muse to Power – The Untold Story of Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon

By Hugo Vickers

LR

Piers Brendon

Queen of Peking

Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties and the Making of Wallis Simpson

By Paul French

LR

William Whyte

Claret Yes, Tea Bags No

Jeremy Catto: A Portrait of the Quintessential Oxford Don

By David Vaiani

LR

History

Peter Moore

Raising the Flag of Freedom

Predator of the Seas: A History of the Slaveship That Fought for Emancipation

By Stephen Taylor

LR

Peter Marshall

Cloistered Lives

The Monastic World: A 1,200-Year History

By Andrew Jotischky

LR

Donald Rayfield

One Way Ticket to Pskov

The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs

By Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

LR

John Foot

All the Pontiff’s Men

Vatican Spies, from the Second World War to Pope Francis

By Yvonnick Denoël (Translated from French by Alan McKay)

LR

At the British Library

Laura Ashe

The Quill & the Distaff

Medieval Women in Their Own Words

Medieval Women: Voices & Visions

By Eleanor Jackson and Julian Harrison (edd)

LR

Film & Music

Thomas W Hodgkinson

There Was No Sorcerer

Box Office Poison: Hollywood’s Story in a Century of Flops

By Tim Robey

Charles Shaar Murray

Positively 4th Street

Talkin’ Greenwich Village: The Heady Rise and Slow Fall of America’s Bohemian Music Capital

By David Browne

LR

Ryan Gilbey

Bitter Sweet Memory

Uncommon People: Britpop and Beyond in 20 Songs

By Miranda Sawyer

LR

Science

Dmitri Levitin

Every Hooke and Cranny

Robert Hooke’s Experimental Philosophy

By Felicity Henderson

LR

Andrew Crumey

Apocalypse Delayed

How to Kill an Asteroid: The Real Science of Planetary Defense

By Robin George Andrews

LR

Patricia Fara

A Viper a Day

The Apothecary’s Wife: The Hidden History of Medicine and How It Became a Commodity

By Karen Bloom Gevirtz

LR

Encounters

Frances Wilson

In Cleanness and in Filth

LR

Architecture

Will Wiles

Root & Branch Reform

Botanical Architecture: Plants, Buildings and Us

By Paul Dobraszczyk

LR

Adrian Tinniswood

Manors & Menorahs

Jewish Country Houses

By Juliet Carey & Abigail Green (edd)

LR

Thomas Blaikie

You Mean There’s No Billiard Room?

London’s Lost Interiors

By Steven Brindle

At the Louvre

Colin Jones

Jesters’ Paradise

Figures of the Fool: From the Middle Ages to the Romantics

Foreign Parts

Barnaby Crowcroft

Sultans of Solitude

Muscat and Oman: The End of an Era

By Ian Skeet

Patrick Marnham

One Night in November

V13: Chronicle of a Trial

By Emmanuel Carrère (Translated from French by John Lambert)

LR

Kerry Brown

In the Chairman’s Shadow

The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform

By Odd Arne Westad & Chen Jian

LR

Shane Ross

Goodbye God, Hello Google

The Revelation of Ireland: 1995–2020

By Diarmaid Ferriter

LR

Notebook

Rowan Williams

Dostoevsky Under Fire

LR

Literary Lives

Claire Harman

Postmark Amherst

The Letters of Emily Dickinson

By Cristanne Miller & Domhnall Mitchell (edd)

D J Taylor

Verses from Middle Earth

The Collected Poems of J R R Tolkien

By Christina Scull & Wayne G Hammond (edd)

LR

Rosa Lyster

Years of Magical Thinking

Didion and Babitz

By Lili Anolik

The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion

By Cory Leadbeater

The Friday Afternoon Club

By Griffin Dunne

LR

Lucy Lethbridge

Once Upon a Time in Marburg

The Brothers Grimm: A Biography

By Ann Schmiesing

LR

Caroline Moorehead

Midnight in Sicily

LR

General

David Goodhart

Generation Pocket Money

Inheritocracy: It’s Time to Talk About the Bank of Mum and Dad

By Eliza Filby

Bryan Appleyard

Chapter & Verse

We Who Wrestle with God: Perceptions of the Divine

By Jordan B Peterson

LR

A J Lees

Men, Minds & Motorcycles

Letters

By Oliver Sacks

LR

Druin Burch

From Bad to Wurst

Three Books for your Kitchen Shelf

LR

Isaac Nowell

Pilchards, Packets & Pasties

Trelawny’s Cornwall: A Journey Through Western Lands

By Petroc Trelawny

LR

Henrietta L Moore

The Fat is in the Fire

How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy

By Julian Baggini

LR

Gavin Plumley

Paws for Thought

The Happiness of Dogs: Why the Unexamined Life is Most Worth Living

By Mark Rowlands

Collared: How We Made the Modern Dog

By Chris Pearson

LR

Tim Richardson

Three Books to Leaf Through

LR

Fiction

Simen Gonsholt

The Old Man and the Fjord

Morning and Evening

By Jon Fosse (Translated from Nynorsk by Damion Searls)

A Silent Language: The Nobel Lecture

By Jon Fosse (Translated from Nynorsk by Damion Searls and Chris Hall)

LR

Zoe Guttenplan

Shadow Lives

The City and Its Uncertain Walls

By Haruki Murakami (Translated from Japanese by Philip Gabriel)

LR

Stevie Davies

Not a Drop to Drink

Thirst

By Giles Foden

LR

Marina Scholtz

Daughter of Misfortune

The Fate of Mary Rose

By Caroline Blackwood

LR

Georgie Newson

X Marks the Spot

Absolution

By Jeff VanderMeer

LR

Fiction in Brief

Sam Reynolds

Storm in a Coffee Cup

All My Precious Madness

By Mark Bowles

LR

Emmeline Clein

When the Music Stops

Good Girl

By Aria Aber

LR

Dylan Kaposi

Lost at Sea

Fragments of a Paradise

By Jean Giono (Translated from French by Paul Eprile)

LR

Children's Books

Philip Womack

Vampires, Zombies & Mobile Phones

Six new books for younger readers

Crime

Natasha Cooper

December 2024/January 2025 Crime Round-up

Belinda Bauer,
Sam Blake,
Chris Hammer,
Howard Linskey,
Holly Watt,
Rob Parker,
Karsten Dusse (Translated from German by Florian Duijsens),
Tim Sullivan

Dec 2024

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