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'William Dalrymple dismantles the inadequacies of prep school history: Britain was a relatively poor, agricultural nation in 1599, while much of India was populous and rich'

Despite having no instinct for organisation and never using the jargon of modern business management, Margaret Thatcher had extraordinary political instincts. These are a central theme of  Herself Alone, the third volume

'When the whole nation is taking a huge punt on whether (or how) to leave the EU, a gambler’s memoirs are timely'

Thomas Grant's "Court Number One" reveals the changing values of the society which the criminal justice system ultimately exists to enforce

Noel Malcolm tells the story of western intellectual fascination with the Ottoman empire from the fall of Constantinople in 1453

"Many, perhaps most, books about Israel are full of tendentious delusions. This is one of the worst examples"

"How could one of the most civilised societies on earth become the instrument of a mind of such malice? I confess that my heart sank at the thought of spending any more

"Heidi Tworek’s shrewd, erudite and timely News from Germany is a work of historical analysis that can also be read as a corrective to the dangerous hysteria over the information games—fake news

The three lives of Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus

The Booker-winning Marlon James takes on the fantasy genre with a novel sent in a phantasmagorical version of Africa

The radical Jewdas Haggadah provides a rag-week version of the Passover ceremony for pubescent Marxists

André and Simone Weil were two sides of the same coin: impatient; determined; brilliant; attracted to ancient wisdom and ideas