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Invasion of the Book Snatchers

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Portrait of the Biographer as a Young Man

Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker

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Joanna Kavenna

The Machine Who Knew Too Much

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By Christopher Summerfield

Nat Segnit

Return of the Curtain Twitchers

Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life

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Robert Service

From Warsaw to Washington

Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America’s Cold War Prophet

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Cosmopolitan Connections

Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent

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Munro Price

Liberty, Equality, Pornography

The Writer’s Lot: Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France

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The Shortest History of France

By Colin Jones

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Reader, I’d Marry Him

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Richard Overy

Blind Eye to Genocide

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By Richard Breitman

Ellen Schrecker

Feds Under the Bed

Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America

By Clay Risen

Richard Vinen

For Career & Country

National Service Life Stories: Masculinity, Class, and the Memory of Conscription in Britain

By Peter Gurney, Matthew Grant & Joel Morley

Patrick Wilcken

River of No Return

How to Save the Amazon: A Journalist’s Deadly Quest for Answers

By Dom Phillips

Cyrus Naji

Where the Walls Have Ears

Disrupted City: Walking the Pathways of Memory and History in Lahore

By Manan Ahmed Asif

Nicolas Liney

Volcanic Vocation

The Buried City: Unearthing the Real Pompeii

By Gabriel Zuchtriegel (Translated from German by Jamie Bulloch)

Peter Davidson

Off the Wall

Bardfield Murals: Ravilious, Bawden, Rowntree and Others

Bardfield Murals: Ravilious, Bawden, Rowntree and Others

By Alan Powers

Guy Stagg

Streams of Consciousness

Is a River Alive?

By Robert Macfarlane

Isabel Bannerman

Practise What You Pleach

Of Thorn & Briar: A Year with the West Country Hedgelayer

By Paul Lamb

Sara Wheeler

Greenland Calling

Lucy Lethbridge

Matters of Knife & Death

The Heart-Shaped Tin: Love, Loss and Kitchen Objects

By Bee Wilson

Norma Clarke

From Baghdad to Brent

Chopping Onions on My Heart: On Losing and Preserving Culture

By Samantha Ellis

D J Taylor

Daddy Cool

Maybe I’m Amazed: A Story of Love and Connection in Ten Songs

By John Harris

David Abulafia

Walk the Talk

Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global

By Laura Spinney

Shaun Whiteside

Found in Translation

Speaking in Tongues

By J M Coetzee & Mariana Dimópulos

Ysenda Maxtone Graham

Altar Egos

Don’t Forget We’re Here Forever: A New Generation’s Search for Religion

By Lamorna Ash

A J Lees

Port in a Storm

Scouse Republic

By David Swift

Liverpool and the Unmaking of Britain

By Sam Wetherell

Cressida Connolly

Dustmen to Dust

No Ordinary Deaths: A People’s History of Mortality

By Molly Conisbee

Tom Whyman

Dad Dethroned?

Fatherhood: A History of Love and Power

By Augustine Sedgewick

Maria Margaronis

The Rest is Noise

The Gender of Sound

By Anne Carson

Alan Ryan

Prosperity & Plunder

Capitalism and Its Critics: A Battle of Ideas in the Modern World

By John Cassidy

Rob Lownie

Going Down Swinging

The Last Bell: Life, Death and Boxing

By Donald McRae

Zoe Guttenplan

Relative Values

Ripeness

By Sarah Moss

Rachel Armitage

The Bigger Picture

The Director

By Daniel Kehlmann (Translated from German by Ross Benjamin)

Gazelle Mba

Microwave Diaries

The Emperor of Gladness

By Ocean Vuong

Caroline Moorehead

Dirty Secrets

The Propagandist

By Cécile Desprairies (Translated from French by Natasha Lehrer)

Nikhil Krishnan

What Is Love?

Open, Heaven

By Seán Hewitt

Malcolm Forbes

Back in Town

The Boys

By Leo Robson

Sam Reynolds

Paper Trails

Sakina’s Kiss

By Vivek Shanbhag (Translated from Kannada by Srinath Perur)

Maria Viola Albano

War Stories

The Deserters

By Mathias Enard (Translated from French by Charlotte Mandell)

Lily Herd

Et in Arcadia

Albion

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Joseph Williams

Droning Spires

Shibboleth

By Thomas Peermohamed Lambert

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Home Truths

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May 2025 Crime Round-up

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