Daisy Dunn

Antique or Modern?

Katie Hickman

The Sultan & the Concubine

The Golden Throne: The Curse of a King

By Christopher de Bellaigue

Gavin Plumley

With All Due Deference

Maria Theresa: Empress – The Making of the Austrian Enlightenment

By Richard Bassett

Piers Brendon

Freedom Readers

The CIA Book Club: The Best-Kept Secret of the Cold War

By Charlie English

Robin Simon

First Impressions

Turner and Constable: Art, Life, Landscape

By Nicola Moorby

Alexander Lee

Falling Down?

Islamesque: The Forgotten Craftsmen Who Built Europe’s Medieval Monuments

By Diana Darke

Lee David Evans

Your Secret’s Safe with Me

Ungovernable: The Political Diaries of a Chief Whip

By Simon Hart

David Abulafia

Let Them Eat Caviar

A History of Crimea: From Antiquity to the Present

By Kerstin S Jobst (Translated from German by John Heath)

John Keay

The Iceman Cometh

The North Pole: The History of an Obsession

By Erling Kagge (Translated from Norwegian by Kari Dickson)

Saul David

Mammoth Task

A Training School for Elephants

By Sophy Roberts

Nicola Shulman

Brush with History

Jonathan Keates

Accuser Accused

Emile Zola: A Determined Life

By Robert Lethbridge

Frances Wilson

Changing My Mind

Changing My Mind

By Julian Barnes

Adrian Poole

Cheer Up, Hamlet

Shakespeare’s Tragic Art

By Rhodri Lewis

Shakespeare is Hard, but So is Life

By Fintan O’Toole

Jonathan Rée

Take Back Control

Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought

By Bruno Leipold

Richard Bourke

Finding Freedom

Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal

By Quentin Skinner

Daniel A Bell

Trust the Experts?

In Covid’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us

By Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee

James Le Fanu

Patient Knows Best

The Age of Diagnosis: Sickness, Health and Why Medicine Has Gone Too Far

By Suzanne O’Sullivan

Norma Clarke

Voyage Round His Mother

The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman

By Didier Eribon (Translated from French by Michael Lucey)

Richard Williams

With a Little Help from My Friend

John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs

By Ian Leslie

Max Norman

Live From New York

Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live

By Susan Morrison

Vaudine England

Upsetting the Apple Cart

The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong’s Greatest Dissident, and China’s Most Feared Critic

By Mark L Clifford

John Gribbin

Last Man on Earth

The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species is on the Edge of Extinction

By Henry Gee

D D Guttenplan

That’s Not Funny! That’s Sick!

The Mad Files: Writers and Cartoonists on the Magazine That Warped America’s Brain!

By David Mikics (ed)

Nigel Andrew

Music Hall Ladies’ Detective Agency

Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress and Doctor Crippen

By Hallie Rubenhold

Andrew Dickinson

Heavenly Voices

One Little Room

By Peter McDonald

Invasion of the Polyhedrons

By Will Eaves

Not Waving but Drowning and Other Poems

By Stevie Smith

Paul Genders

A Life More Ordinary

Theft

By Abdulrazak Gurnah

Ella Fox-Martens

Nightmare on Fleet Street

Universality

By Natasha Brown

Jonathan Beckman

Deaths of the Artists

Perspectives

By Laurent Binet (Translated from French by Sam Taylor)

Zoe Guttenplan

Hashtag Living

Perfection

By Vincenzo Latronico (Translated from Italian by Sophie Hughes)

Sam Reynolds

No Connection Detected

Twist

By Colum McCann

George Monaghan

Stuff of Nightmares

The Dream Hotel

By Laila Lalami

Randy Boyagoda

Rake’s Progress

Flesh

By David Szalay

Franklin Nelson

Mother Country

Living in Your Light

By Abdellah Taïa (Translated from French by Emma Ramadan)

Stevie Davies

Friends & Neighbours

33 Place Brugmann

By Alice Austen

Lily Herd

University of Life

There’s No Turning Back

By Alba de Céspedes (Translated from Italian by Ann Goldstein)

Emily Godwin

Sisters in Arms

The Tiger’s Share

By Keshava Guha

Elmos Andrews

Memory Garden

Nova Scotia House

By Charlie Porter

Natasha Cooper

March 2025 Crime Round-up

• Kate Webb, 
• Laura McCluskey, 
• Charles Beaumont, 
• Carole Hailey, 
• Alan Judd, 
• Guy Morpuss, 
• Catherine Ryan Howard, 
• Callum McSorley, 
• Lucy Clarke

Jana Dambrogio & Daniel Starza Smith

Locked in Time