Joseph Hone

Destroy While Reading

Bryan Appleyard

Paranoid Humanoid

Ghosts of Iron Mountain: The Hoax That Duped America and Its Sinister Legacy

By Phil Tinline

John Guy

Imperfect Union

The Sun Rising: James I and the Dawn of a Global Britain

By Anna Whitelock

Peter Moore

Rocking the Boat

Wreckers: Disaster in the Age of Discovery

By Simon Park

Caroline Moorehead

Massacre of the Innocents

The Einstein Vendetta: Hitler, Mussolini and a True Story of Murder

By Thomas Harding

Christopher Turner

Constructivism & Crumpets

The Alienation Effect: How Central European Emigrés Transformed the British Twentieth Century

By Owen Hatherley

Phil Baker

One Thousand & One Frights

Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age: A Forgotten History of the Occult

By Raphael Cormack

Francis Beckett

Free Radical

Tony Benn: A Biography

By Jad Adams

The Most Dangerous Man in Britain? Tony Benn – The Political Writings

By Melissa Benn (ed)

Rupert Christiansen

A Novelist Draws

Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo

Joan Smith

Doing Harm

The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal

By Jon Stock

Edward Short

Merger or Acquisition?

Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America

By Russell Shorto

Christopher Fletcher

Cover Stories

Bound Together: Modern British Bookbinding

Alberto Manguel

Last Post

The Madman’s Guide to Stamp Collecting

By Robert Irwin

Robert Chandler

Rhyme & Resistance

In Love and Revolution: Selected Poems

By Anna Akhmatova (Translated from Russian by Stephen Capus)

Nicola Shulman

Models, Mistresses & Muses

Hidden Portraits: The Untold Stories of Six Women Who Loved Picasso

By Sue Roe

James Stourton

Cubist Love Story

Irascible: The Combative Life of Douglas Cooper, Collector and Friend of Picasso

By Adrian Clark & Richard Calvocoressi

Robin Simon

Who Needs Florence?

Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350

By Joanna Cannon (ed), with Caroline Campbell & Stephan Wolohojian

Matthew Holman

Stamped on These Lifeless Things

Those Passions: On Art and Politics

By T J Clark

Laura Thompson

Death on the Dart

Nigel Andrew

Doom & Plume

Three books on birds

Nicky Haslam

Full Disclosure

The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir

By Edmund White

Undercover: Two Secret Lives

By Tony Scotland

Norma Clarke

Toxic Legacy

Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance

By Joe Dunthorne

Julian Baggini

Feast & Famine

Food Fight: From Plunder and Profit to People and Planet

By Stuart Gillespie

Marek Kohn

Right-Thinking People

The Ideological Brain: A Radical Science of Susceptible Minds

By Leor Zmigrod

Miranda Seymour

The Body in the Cistern

That Dark Spring: A True Story of Death and Desire in 1920s Provence

By Susannah Stapleton

Zoe Guttenplan

No Sex Please, We’re Married

Vanishing World

By Sayaka Murata (Translated from Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori)

Paul Genders

Out of the Shadows

Sleeping Children

By Anthony Passeron (Translated from French by Frank Wynne)

Simen Gonsholt

Girl from the North Country

Nothing Grows by Moonlight

By Torborg Nedreaas (Translated from Norwegian by Bibbi Lee)

Lucy Thynne

Enter Stage Right

Audition

By Katie Kitamura

Laurel Berger

Dead Soul

Small Boat

By Vincent Delecroix (Translated from French by Helen Stevenson) 

Magnus Rena

And Then There Were Nine

Idle Grounds

By Krystelle Bamford

Rachel Armitage

It’s All Greek to Me

One Boat

By Jonathan Buckley

Jude Cook

Whale of a Time

Call Me Ishmaelle

By Xiaolu Guo

Sam Reynolds

Memory Hole

Wildcat Dome

By Yuko Tsushima (Translated from Japanese by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda)

Constance Higgins

Throwing Shapes

Stag Dance

By Torrey Peters

Marina Goodman

Eyes on the Fries

On the Clock

By Claire Baglin (Translated from French by Jordan Stump)

Natasha Cooper

April 2025 Crime Round-up

• Abigail Dean, 
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• Stig Abell, 
• Joanna Dodd, 
• Orlando Murrin

Peter Keeling

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