Book Review: Bright Eyed
/A new memoir about sleeplessness - and the wired culture that seems to encourage it
Read MoreIn Paperback: Wildlife in the Anthropocene
/Now in paperback: a new rumination on the nature of the post-wildlife world mankind has built
Read MoreBook Review: The Rise of Thomas Cromwell
/Hilary Mantel's two famous novels have fueled the centuries-old curiosity about King Henry VIII's notorious minister Thomas Cromwell: was he a saint, Satan, or a civil servant? A magnificent new study attempts to sift fact from fiction
Read MoreBook Review: The Wolf Border
/The effort of an eccentric earl to re-introduce wolves to England draws a zoologist back to the home she left years before
Read MoreBook Review: The Unfortunates
/The steely matriarch of a wealthy family is losing both her health and her control over her family in this sharp debut novel by Sophie McManus
Read MoreIn Paperback: The Literary Churchill
/Now in paperback, a groundbreaking study of Winston Churchill's life as a bestselling author, speechwriter, and speech performer
Read MoreBook Review: Watch the Lady
/Penelope Devereux inspired a poet and may well have inspired a failed coup in Elizabethan England - and now she inspires a richly-detailed novel
Read MoreBook Review: Shakespeare and the Countess
/The 1596 battle over Blackfriars Theatre was waged by a strong-willed Puritan woman who had a habit of picking fights, including with the Queen; a terrific new book tells the story at length for the first time
Read MoreBook Review: Wellington, Waterloo and the Fortunes of Peace
/In time for the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo comes the concluding volume in Rory Muir's magisterial biography of the battle's victor, the Duke of Wellington
Read MoreBook Review: Behind the Mask
/The enigmatic and compelling aristocratic author Vita Sackville-West is the subject of an approachable new biography
Read MoreThe Management of Savagery
/Many new books - some excellent, some awful - are now seeking to explain the terrorist group ISIS, but the group's own origins dynamics are dauntingly complex. Greg Waldmann tries to make sense of it all.
Read MoreFather Knows Best
/He shaped the morals and manners of a vast country and put an indelible stamp on the world's thinking, but he himself couldn't get the job he wanted. Robert Minto reviews a new history of Confucianism.
Read MoreLovin', Touchin', Squeeezin'
/It has three hearts, eight tentacles, and a brain of startling and utterly alien complexity - it's the octopus, and a heartfelt book takes readers inside the cephalopod world.
Read MoreNo Doubters in the Shipyards
/Celebrated biographer H. W. Brands has written the first full-dress of Ronald Reagan since the former president's death in 2004 - but does Reagan elude him, as he has so many biographers? Steve Donoghue reviews.
Read MoreNobody’s Novel
/In Anna North's new novel, many narrative voices attempt to tell the story of film director Sophie Stark - but can any number of perspectives reveal an essentially unknowable character? Katie Gemmill reviews.
Read MoreScala or Piolo? The Painstaking Brilliance of Alessandro Manzoni
/Poet, dramatist, and author of the great Italian novel I promessi sposi, Alessandro Manzoni led a life as fascinating as his fiction. Luciano Mangiafico tells the story of the Father of Italian Prose.
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