From Gordon Brown to Natalie Haynes: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Family Meal by Bryan Washington and Pure Wit by Francesca Peacock.
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Also featuring Family Meal by Bryan Washington and Pure Wit by Francesca Peacock.
ByA new history shows how the clever, ambitious queen was no match for the post-truth politics of Henry VIII’s court.
ByAn oral history of the bitter Eighties dispute reveals a conflict that went far deeper than just government vs trade…
ByJeremy Eichler’s Time’s Echo shows how four great 20th-century composers captured the horrors of conflict.
ByHow the shadowy start-up Clearview sold the power of facial recognition to corporations and states across the globe.
ByThe final part of Jonathan Sumption’s epic history reveals the complacency that led to the end of English power in…
ByA study of postwar British politics overstates the influence of its leading personalities.
ByThe songs he wrote with Elton John may be works of art. His bloated memoir is not.
ByThe tech billionaire built a world that he could rule – then allowed it to destroy him.
ByA daughter’s homage to the mother who had to negotiate family and the urge to activism.
ByAlso featuring The View From Down Here by Lucy Webster and So To Speak by Terrance Hayes.
ByHow did the TV presenter’s terminally twee stories of death and Waitrose become the bestselling novels in the UK?
ByA new book identifies the army of amateurs, eccentrics and criminals who created the Oxford English Dictionary.
ByUnder Mary Lou McDonald the party is on the path to power – but can she keep its uneasy alliance…
ByJohn Gray’s latest book argues that the new Leviathans of liberalism have led to a war of all against all.
ByAlso featuring Kenneth W Harl’s history of nomadic tribes and Redstone Press’s Seeing Things.
ByEmily Wilson’s translation of the Iliad reveals a bleak vision of the self-interest and savagery of humankind.
ByIn The Wren, The Wren, the Irish author rigorously traces the line between love and trauma.
ByDebates about Britain’s colonial legacy are not just a product of Brexit or woke politics – empire has always been…
ByNick Compton had talent and a famous name, but the unforgiving sport both hid and exacerbated his insecurities.
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