Kathryn Hughes

Engagements with Austen

Richard J Evans

Annihilation through Labour

Unknown Enemy: The Hidden Nazi Force That Built the Third Reich

By Charles Dick

John Adamson

Disunited Kingdom

The Blood in Winter: A Nation Descends, 1642

By Jonathan Healey

Chris Given-Wilson

Tale of Three Kings

Sceptred Isle: A New History of the Fourteenth Century

By Helen Carr

John Gribbin

Explosive Energy

Destroyer of Worlds: The Deep History of the Nuclear Age, 1895–1965

By Frank Close

Robert Colls

Talking the Walk

A Bright Cold Day: The Wonder of George Orwell

By Nathan Waddell

Caroline Moorehead

City of Refuge

Marseille 1940: The Flight of Literature

By Uwe Wittstock (Translated from German by Daniel Bowles)

Martin Vander Weyer

Making Waves

Empty Vessel: The Story of the Global Economy in One Ship

By Ian Kumekawa

Peter Marshall

To Cross a King

Thomas More: A Life and Death in Tudor England

By Joanne Paul

Tim Stanley

Conscience of Conservatism?

Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America

By Sam Tanenhaus

Donald Rayfield

Operation Duffel Bag

The Spy in the Archive: How One Man Tried to Kill the KGB

By Gordon Corera

Richard Vinen

An Author & a Spy

Elizabeth Wiskemann: Scholar, Journalist, Secret Agent

By Geoffrey Field

Matthew Sturgis

Blast Off!

‘Our Little Gang’: The Lives of the Vorticists

By James King

Michael Prodger

Breaking the Mould

Fragility: A History of Plaster

By Alain Corbin (Translated from French by Helen Morrison)

Rana Mitter

Tale of Two Sisters

Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: China’s Stolen Children and a Story of Separated Twins

By Barbara Demick

Owen Bennett-Jones

Continental Divide

Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia

By Sam Dalrymple

Patrick Wilcken

Descent of Man

Darwin’s Savages: Science, Race and the Conquest of Patagonia

By Matthew Carr

Daniel A Bell

Hoping for a Hatchet Job

Richard Canning

Stand by Your Man

Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told

By Jeremy Atherton Lin

Will Cohu

Marking Time

Homework: A Memoir

By Geoff Dyer

Stuart Jeffries

Mind Over Manners

The Genius Myth: The Dangerous Allure of Rebels, Monsters and Rule-Breakers

By Helen Lewis

Nicola Shulman

Sex on Stems

The Lost Orchid: A Story of Victorian Plunder and Obsession

By Sarah Bilston

Simon Heffer

And was Jerusalem Builded Here?

God is an Englishman: Christianity and the Creation of England

By Bijan Omrani

Laura Beatty

Learning from Snails

Nature’s Genius: Evolution’s Lessons for a Changing Planet

By David Farrier

Richard Dyer

Out at the Movies

It Used to Be Witches: Under the Spell of Queer Cinema

By Ryan Gilbey

William Burns

Hell or Low Water

Dante’s Purgatorio

By Philip Terry

Chaotic Good

By Isabelle Baafi

Silk Work

By Imogen Cassels

Sam Kitchener

Back in the Day

Twelve Post-War Tales

By Graham Swift

Stevie Davies

Death by Pheasant

The Original

By Nell Stevens

Simen Gonsholt

Candid Camera

Girl, 1983

By Linn Ullmann (Translated from Norwegian by Martin Aitken)

Sam Reynolds

Two of a Kind

The Möbius Book

By Catherine Lacey

Jude Cook

Trouble & Strife

The Benefactors

By Wendy Erskine

Paul Genders

Gone to the Dogs

The Lowlife

By Alexander Baron

Isaac Sligh

Prize & Prejudice

Sister Europe

By Nell Zink

Hassan Akram

Norfolk Rhapsodies

Poppyland

By D J Taylor

Rachel Armitage

Bringing up Baby

Gunk

By Saba Sams

Laurel Berger

Parks, Monopoly & Death

Friends and Lovers

By Nolwenn Le Blevennec (Translated from French by Madeleine Rogers)

Aida Amoako

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Stealing Dad

By Sofka Zinovieff

Oonagh Devitt Tremblay

Love in a Time of Choler

Lili is Crying

By Hélène Bessette (Translated from French by Kate Briggs)

Emily Godwin

Painted Lady

The Marchesa

By Sarah Dunant

Natasha Cooper

June 2025 Crime Round-up

• Amy McCulloch, 
• Michael Robotham, 
• Fiona Cummins, 
• Katherine Faulkner, 
• S A Cosby, 
• Kia Abdullah, 
• Andrew Taylor