How the West was Invented
Emperor of the West: Charlemagne and the Carolingian Empire by Hywel Williams
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Launching Pad of the Neocons
Running Commentary: The Contentious Magazine that Transformed the Jewish Left into the Neoconservative Right by Benjamin Balint
Old Men Don’t Forget
The Misogynist by Piers Paul Read and Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
The Honorary Ottoman
Faith and Power: Religion and Politics in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis
A Dangerous Artist to Know
Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane by Andrew Graham-Dixon
The Answer Lies in the Soil
The Making of the British Landscape by Francis Pryor
Jottings of a Journeyman
The Lost Books of The Odyssey by Zachary Mason
Moral Fog of War
Moral Combat: A History of World War II by Michael Burleigh
The Fragrant Moralist
Hitch-22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens
London and the Fornicating ’50s
Capital Affairs: The Making of Permissive Society by Frank Mort
Pilgrim of Meaning
Newman’s Unquiet Grave: Portrait of a Reluctant Saint by John Cornwell There has not been, to say the least, a paucity of books about John Henry Newman, or of books which touch
The Original Dirty Digger
A King's Ransom: The Life of Charles Théveneau de Morande, Blackmailer, Scandalmonger & Master Spy by Simon Burrows