Peter Rose

Rotation in Martyrdom

Robert Gerwarth

Hitler’s Royal Welcome

The Hohenzollerns and the Nazis: A History of Collaboration

By Stephan Malinowski (Translated from German by Jefferson Chase)

Pratinav Anil

Praise the Lord & Pass the Ammunition

Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity

By Manu S Pillai

Mathew Lyons

They Singed the Sultan’s Beard

The Great Siege of Malta

By Marcus Bull

Bijan Omrani

Number-Cruncher of Nineveh

The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of History

By Selena Wisnom

Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History

By Moudhy Al-Rashid

Miranda Seymour

Peril in St Petersburg

The Rebel Romanov: Julie of Saxe-Coburg, the Empress Russia Never Had

By Helen Rappaport

The Lives and Deaths of the Princesses of Hesse: The Curious Destinies of Queen Victoria’s Granddaughters

By Frances Welch

Jason Burke

Artists & Imams

Unholy Kingdom: Religion, Corruption and Violence in Saudi Arabia

By Malise Ruthven

David Abulafia

Worth Its Salt

The Dead Sea: A 10,000-Year History

By Nir Arielli

Guy Stagg

Between the Woods & the Warzone

Walking Europe’s Last Wilderness: A Journey through the Carpathian Mountains

By Nick Thorpe

Claire Harman

Great Affectations

Dickens the Enchanter: Inside the Explosive Imagination of the Great Storyteller

By Peter Conrad

David Wheatley

Bard of Tyrone

John Montague: A Poet’s Life

By Adrian Frazier

David Morgan-Owen

Monarch of the Sea

The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain 1815–1945

By N A M Rodger

Tristram Hunt

Marx’s Englishman

Christopher Hill: The Life of a Radical Historian

By Michael Braddick

Caroline Moorehead

Moments of Reprieve

A Man of Few Words: The Bricklayer of Auschwitz Who Saved Primo Levi

By Carlo Greppi (Translated from Italian by Howard Curtis)

Martin Vander Weyer

Tech Bro 1.0

Source Code: My Beginnings

By Bill Gates

Lucy Moore

Lifting the Rug

Threads of Empire: A History of the World in Twelve Carpets

By Dorothy Armstrong

James Waddell

A Cut Above

Fragmentary Forms: A New History of Collage

By Freya Gowrley

Alexander Lee

In the Tongues of Immortals

The Grammar of Angels: A Search for the Magical Powers of Sublime Language

By Edward Wilson-Lee

Stuart Jeffries

Planet of the Living Dead

The Future Loves You: How and Why We Should Abolish Death

By Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston

Thomas W Hodgkinson

Just Get on with It

Jump! A New Philosophy for Conquering Procrastination 

By Simon May 

Yuan Yi Zhu

The View from the Bench

The Challenges of Democracy and the Rule of Law

By Jonathan Sumption

Morten Jerven

Never Mind the Property Ladder

Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance

By Bronwen Everill

Fram Dinshaw

Gown & Pronoun

Bad Education: Why Our Universities Are Broken and How We Can Fix Them

By Matt Goodwin

Nigel Andrew

A Mine of Information

Under a Metal Sky: A Journey Through Minerals, Greed and Wonder

By Philip Marsden

Henry Gee

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Folklore and Zoology

By Floe Foxon

Gillian Tindall

Order, Order, Amen

The Lost Chapel of Westminster: How a Royal Chapel Became the House of Commons

By John Cooper

Thomas Blaikie

Making an Entrance

Doors of London: Styles, Stories, Art & Architecture

By Cath Harries & Melanie Backe-Hansen

Paul Genders

Dirty Tricks

Empty Wigs

By Jonathan Meades

Zoe Guttenplan

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Theory & Practice

By Michelle de Kretser

Stevie Davies

London Calling

Another Man in the Street

By Caryl Phillips

George Monaghan

Odd Couple

Three Days in June

By Anne Tyler

Ella Fox-Martens

Love Actually

The City Changes Its Face

By Eimear McBride

Sam Reynolds

Living History

We Do Not Part

By Han Kang (Translated from Korean by E Yaewon & Paige Aniyah Morris)

Morten Høi Jensen

Sliding Doors

Money to Burn

By Asta Olivia Nordenhof (Translated from Danish by Caroline Waight)

Ralph Jones

Raised from the Dead

Lazarus Man

By Richard Price

Jared Marcel Pollen

Bach to the Future

Herscht 07769

By László Krasznahorkai (Translated from Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet)

Magnus Rena

Build ’em up, Knock ’em Down

May Our Joy Endure

By Kevin Lambert (Translated from French by Donald Winkler)

Cosmo Adair

Sorrows of Young Danny

The Boyhood of Cain

By Michael Amherst

Pierre Waugh

A Brush with Death

The Violet Hour

By James Cahill

Thea McLachlan

Leaving New York

Confessions

By Catherine Airey

Natasha Cooper

February 2025 Crime Round-up

• Charlotte Philby, 
• Snæbjörn Arngrímsson, 
• Elly Griffiths, 
• Scott Turow, 
• R S Burnett, 
• Simon Mason, 
• Michael Idov, 
• Stella Rimington, 
• Clare Mackintosh

Peter Davidson

Finishing Lines