Diane Purkiss

Dear Reader

Charles Darwent

Latex & Lace

Knife-Woman: The Life of Louise Bourgeois

By Marie-Laure Bernadac (Translated from French by Lauren Elkin)

Kirsten Tambling

Artist’s Best Friend

The Dog’s Gaze: A Visual History

By Thomas W Laqueur

Rupert Christiansen

No Coughs, Frills or Gimmicks

There Is Sweet Music Here: The World of Wigmore Hall

By Julia Boyd

Maren Meinhardt

While the Music Lasts

Vocal Break: On Women, Music and Power

By Lauren Elkin

John Guy

Concerning Strangers

This Little World: A New History of Tudor and Stuart England

By Nandini Das

Anthony Pagden

Room for Improvement

The West: The History of an Idea

By Georgios Varouxakis

Bijan Omrani

Down the Appian Way

Servus: How Slavery Made the Roman Empire

By Emma Southon

Saul David

Command & Deploy

Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare

By Katrina Manson

Howard Davies

Who Ate All the Pie?

Challenging Inequalities: How We Got Stuck and Where We Go Next

By Paul Johnson

Donald Rayfield

Crimea & Punishment

Richard Vinen

Fair Warning

Yesterday: The United Kingdom from Thatcher to Covid

By Brian Harrison

Anthony Teasdale

Burn after Leading

Coronations and Defenestrations: Choosing (and Losing) Tory Leaders

By Lee David Evans

Robert Colls

Spinning Class

Radicals: The Working Classes and the Making of Modern Britain

By Geoff Andrews

Michael Reid

Loyal to a Fault

Lula! The Man, the Myth and a Dream of Latin America

By Richard Lapper

Anna Reid

War & Peace

I, Vera: The Many Lives of Vera Gedroits, Radical Princess

By Miranda Seymour

Wendy Holden

Our Share of Eccentricities

Queen Elizabeth II: A Personal History

By Hugo Vickers

Guy Stagg

Call of the Wild

The Savage Landscape: How We Made the Wilderness

By Cal Flyn

Nigel Andrew

Snakes on the Brain

Outsider Animals: How the Creatures at the Margins of Our Lives Have the Most to Teach Us

By Marlene Zuk

Harriet Rix

Afresh, Afresh, Afresh

Tree

By Aya Kōda (Translated from Japanese by Charlotte Goff)

Ancient: Reviving the Woods That Made Britain

By Luke Barley

When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World

By Suzanne Simard

James Griffiths

Boundary Ball

The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet

By Yi-Ling Liu

Adrian Tahourdin

Escargots & Existentialism

En Route: A Journey Round France in the Company of Great Writers

By Peter Fiennes

Jonathan Keates

Volcanic & Voluptuous

The Fire in the Mountain: Sicily, Etna and Her People

By Helena Attlee

Across Sicily with Garibaldi’s Thousand: An Adventure in Landscape and Italian Memory

By Tim Parks

Jane Yager

The Toy of Tyrants

The Village on the Edge of the World: Writing and Surviving Ceauşescu’s Romania

By Herta Müller (Translated from German by Kate McNaughton)

Jerry Brotton

Fare Thee Well

Red, Red Robin: My Long Goodbye to Home

By Alison Light

Weidenfeld & Nicolson 336pp £22

Sheena Joughin

The Long Goodbye

Ghost Stories: A Memoir

By Siri Hustvedt

Stephen Smith

Entry Requirements

What the Bouncer Saw: Life on the Front Line of the Security Business

By George Bass

A C Bevan

The Magnetfisher

Adam Kucharski

On Second Thoughts

Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works

By Helen Pearson

Emma Smith

Such Ado

What’s in a Name? How Historians Know Shakespeare Was Shakespeare

By Susan Dwyer Amussen

Lucy Lethbridge

Deco & Duckweed

Lido Land: How Britain Learned to Make a Splash

By Tom Fort

Brave and Bold: 100 Years of the Ladies’ Pond on Hampstead Heath (in All Weathers)

By Nell Frizzell

Tim Richardson

Kind of Blue

Edward Steichen and the Garden

By Sarah Anne McNear

Keith Miller

Tweed & Tragedy

John of John

By Douglas Stuart

Natalie Perman

Truly, Madly, Maybe

I Want You to Be Happy

By Jem Calder

Mythili Rao

Brushes with Fame

Minor Black Figures

By Brandon Taylor

Paul Genders

Just a Jealous Guy

Dark Is the Morning

By Rupert Thomson

Rosa Lyster

A Life Less Ordinary

Journal of a Man Unknown

By Gillian Tindall

Constance Higgins

Second Time Around

Ghost-Eye

By Amitav Ghosh

Tilda Coleman

Idol Thinking

Give Me Everything You’ve Got

By Imogen Crimp

Michael Delgado

Nothing but Troubles

Prestige Drama

By Séamas O'Reilly

Nick Bartlett

Brave New World

The Quantity Theory of Morality

By Will Self

Alfred Nunney

Life Lessons

Offseason

By Avigayl Sharp

Joshua Klarica

Mass Protest

Event Horizon

By Balsam Karam (Translated from Swedish by Saskia Vogel)

Joseph Williams

Lost in the Supermarket

A Working Title I Want to Change

By Saul Leslie

Natasha Cooper

May 2026 Crime Round-Up

• Holly Watt, 
• Louise Penny & Mellissa Fung, 
• Chris Brookmyre, 
• C J Merritt, 
• Ardal O’Hanlon, 
• Jo Murray, 
• Michael Idov, 
• Jo Callaghan

Zoe Guttenplan

Just My Type