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James Hamilton's biography of Thomas Gainsborough offers a portrait not just of the artist but also of the worlds he moved through

Yuri Slezkine's The House of Government tells the story of a place where revolutionaries came home and the revolution came to die

Christopher Tadgell's seven-volume Architecture In Context is astonishingly ambitious, and effortlessly even-handed

Stephen Glover's Fleet Street novel Splash! is a burlesque treat

The Durrells' Anglo-Greek love affair — and Catherine Brown's

The self-help guru Svend Brinkmann's antidote to self-help culture

Anti-Catholic calumnies remain deeply embedded in our culture. Professor Rodney Stark's Bearing False Witness hopes to refute them

A book of conversations with George Steiner, newly available in translation, is a good introduction to the great cultural critic's preoccupations

Johanna Hanink's The Greek Debt asks if we owe the Greeks for the foundations of Western democracy—or do they owe us for their economic mismanagement?

Charles Saumarez Smith's East London is a voyage of discovery into the richness and variety of an area in constant flux

Novels by Francesca Segal and Anna Stothard take on the plight of the modern Millenial

Alexander Betts and Paul Collier's "Refuge" is a work of politically engaged scholarship with both trenchant analysis and original solutions