Norma Clarke

In Search of Radicals

Frances Spalding

Knives Out at the Tate

After the Dance: Le Roux Smith Le Roux and the Tate Scandal

By Philippe Le Roux

Bruce Boucher

Look This Way

The Maverick’s Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream

By Blake Gopnik

Lucy Lethbridge

Between the Lines

Look Closer: How to Get More Out of Reading

By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

Tom Shippey

927 and All That

The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom

By David Woodman

Daniel Rey

Voyages of Discovery

The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus

By Matthew Restall

David Abulafia

Nomadic Knowledge

Crucible of Light: Islam and the Forging of Europe from the 8th to the 21st Century

By Elizabeth Drayson

Edward Short

Imperial Crucible

Republic and Empire: Crisis, Revolution, and America’s Early Independence

By Trevor Burnard & Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy

Nigel Jones

Dangers of the Deep

Wolfpack: Inside Hitler's U-Boat War

By Roger Moorhouse

Richard Vinen

Action This Day

Advance Britannia: How the Second World War Was Won, 1942–1945

By Alan Allport

David Stafford

Hungary’s War

The Last Days of Budapest: Spies, Nazis, Rescuers and Resistance, 1940–1945

By Adam LeBor

Julian Baggini

Ethics of Indifference

Death in a Shallow Pond: A Philosopher, a Drowning Child, and Strangers in Need

By David Edmonds

Kathryn Hughes

Attributes of Life

Transcendence for Beginners

By Clare Carlisle

Patrick Galbraith

Ordinary People

Middleland: Dispatches from the Borders

By Rory Stewart

Jonathan Keates

Over Troubled Water

Waterloo Bridge and London River: Investigations and Reflections

By Andrew Saint

John Gribbin

Nobel or Not?

Crick: A Mind in Motion – from DNA to the Brain

By Matthew Cobb

Maren Meinhardt

Sense of an Ending

Death of an Ordinary Man

By Sarah Perry

James Cahill

Clean Out the Chicken Coop

Art Work: On the Creative Life

By Sally Mann

D J Taylor

The Magus & Me

Simon Heffer

Pulling Out All the Stops

Music’s Odyssey: An Invitation to Western Classical Music

By Robin Holloway

Leah Broad

Inside the Kaleidoscope

Duet: An Artful History of Music

By Eleanor Chan

Richard Dyer

Soundtrack to a Life

Mark Kermode’s Surround Sound: The Stories of Movie Music

By Mark Kermode & Jenny Nelson

James Snell

Fall of the House of Assad

It Started in Damascus: How the Long Syrian Revolution Reshaped Our World

By Rime Allaf

Miranda Seymour

Wild at Heart

Lone Wolf: Walking the Faultlines of Europe

By Adam Weymouth

Henry Day

Microscopes Out

The Small Stuff of Roman Antiquity

By Emily Gowers

Rhodri Lewis

Free Verse?

Context Collapse: A Poem Containing a History of Poetry

By Ryan Ruby

Felicity Cloake

A Tale of Two Toppings

The History of Pizza

By Luca Cesari (translated from Italian by Zachary Nowak)

Nigel Andrew

Touring the Tombs

Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead

By Roger Luckhurst

Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys

By Mariana Enriquez (translated from Spanish by Megan McDowell)

Mark Lawson

Cider House Revisited

Queen Esther

By John Irving

Pratinav Anil

Gurus & Grandes Dames

The Eleventh Hour

By Salman Rushdie

Claudia FitzHerbert

Face Your Daemons

The Rose Field: The Book of Dust, Volume Three

By Philip Pullman

Paul Genders

It Ain’t Me Babe

Boy from the North Country

By Sam Sussman

Sarah Moorhouse

Made in Man

Flat Earth

By Anika Jade Levy

Constance Higgins

Femina Fatalis

Nymph

By Stephanie LaCava

Laurel Berger

That Nice Dr Asperger

The Matchbox Girl

By Alice Jolly

Peter Huhne

Fathers & Sons

The Imagined Life

By Andrew Porter

Lucy Popescu

Ismail Alexandrani

Natasha Cooper

November 2025 Crime Round-up

• Sharon Bolton, 
• Zoë Rankin, 
• Paul Bradley Carr, 
• Michael Connelly, 
• Paul Waters, 
• The Secret Barrister writing as S J Fleet, 
• Samir Machado de Machado (translated from Portuguese by Rahul Bery), 
• Kate Rhodes

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