Dennis Duncan

Original Pirate Material

Philip Parker

Frieze Frames

Rex Juba: 15 Glimpses of an African King

By Andrew Kenrick

Peter Stothard

Temples of Doom

Pericles: Statesman, Demagogue, Eccentric

By Paul Cartledge

Hubris: Pericles, the Parthenon, and the Invention of Athens

By David Stuttard

Victoria Moul

Knowing Classics

Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature

By Emily Wilson

Daisy Dunn

An Epic for the Ages

The Odyssey

By Christopher Nolan (dir)

Harrison Stetler

Death to the Wench

The Dark Side of France: Thirteen Chapters in the History of the French Far Right

By Enda O’Doherty

Charlie Gammell

Despair & Hope

Stolen Revolution: Betrayal and Hope in Modern Iran

By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin & Yeganeh Torbati

Rana Mitter

Precedents of China

Why Ancient Chinese Political Thought Matters: Four Dialogues on China’s Past, Present, and Future

By Daniel A Bell

Ian Thomson

Super Mario

Mario Vargas Llosa: A Life

By Gerald Martin

Ritchie Robertson

Filling in the Blanks

Hannah Arendt: A Life of the Mind

By Thomas Meyer (Translated from German by Shelley Frisch)

Colin MacCabe

The Don in Geneva

John Berger: From Life

By Tom Overton

Mark Lawson

Brief Candle

Walking Shadow: Love, Loss and Shakespeare

By Greg Doran

Bruce Boucher

Grains of Sense

Rudolf II: The Life and Legend of the Mad Emperor

By Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann

Joseph Hone

Yours, Junius

Radical Duke: How One Aristocrat – and the American Revolution – Transformed Britain

By Danielle Allen

Jonathan Boff

People’s War

Collapse: A Global History of the Second World War, 1931–1941

By Jonathan Fennell

Declan Ryan

Threaded Through by Language

A Chorus of Ears: On ‘The Voice of the Poem’

By Denise Riley

Tanya Harrod

The Weaving on the Wall

Anni Albers: A Life

By Nicholas Fox Weber

Stephen Smith

California Dreaming

The Beverly Hills Housewife: Hockney’s Californian Muse and the World Beyond the Pool

By James Cahill

Claudia Swan

Delftly Done

Vermeer’s Afterlives

By Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Miranda Seymour

Thumbing their Noses at Fascism

A Vast Horizon: Artists and Lovers, Freedom and War

By Anna Thomasson

Lorraine Daston

Web of Intrigue

Arachnomania: Spiders and the Cultural Work They Do for Us

By Maria Tatar

David E Cooper

Dogged by Difference

The Cultural Lives of Greyhounds

By John Stokes

Sebastian Shakespeare

Alberto Manguel

Frances Cairncross

On the Shelf

We Are Not Machines: The Fight for the Future of Work

By Sarah O’Connor

Julian Baggini

You Can’t Argue with That

How to Agree to Disagree: Turning Conflict into Connection

By Gabrielle Rifkind

Andrew Crumey

Tic Tacs & Other Oddities

We Want to Believe: How Aliens Went Mainstream and Why It Matters

By Adam Kirsch

Peter Popham

Remember the Floppy Disk?

How We Disappear: A Personal History of Information

By Thomas S Mullaney

Sara Hudston

Life at a Cow’s Pace

The Script of the Stones: A Short Walk at the End of the World

By Francis Gooding

Meike Ziervogel

Spitting at Death

By Jean Said Makdisi

Zoe Guttenplan

Lights, Camera, Inaction

Life of M

By Rachel Cusk

Joseph Williams

A Master on the Margins

Hell of Solitude: Selected Writings of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

By Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (Selected and translated from Japanese by Ryan Choi)

Constance Higgins

Stuck in the Middle with You

Beginning Middle End

By Valeria Luiselli

Paul Genders

Not So Miserable Now

The Smiths: A Novella

By Michael Bracewell

Annabel Rice

The Old Man and the Seine

Château Rouge

By Amit Chaudhuri

Natalie Perman

Mum’s the Word

Long Wave

By Daisy Johnson

Rachel Armitage

Cairo Chronicles

Passage

By Colin Thubron

Will Fleming

Fighting the Waves

Where Are the Kings

By Donal Ryan

Sagar Castleman

Conversations with Friends

How to Make a Woman

By Marie Darrieussecq (Translated from French by Penny Hueston)

Edward Bayliss

Mapping out the Past

Land

By Maggie O’Farrell

Laura Baliman

Mother of Many Daughters

Medea Sang Me a Corrido

By Dahlia de la Cerda (Translated from Spanish by Julia Sanches & Heather Cleary)

Natasha Cooper

August 2026 Crime Round-up

• Simon Conway, 
• Shari Lapena, 
• Doug Johnstone, 
• Bella Mackie, 
• Chris Chibnall, 
• R L Heber, 
• Joanna Wallace, 
• Mark Billingham

Simon Garfield

Inky Fingers