Poetic Justice
Opal Sunset: Selected Poems 1958-2008 and The Revolt of the Pendulum: Essays 2005-2008 by Clive James
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Horse Power
Russia Against Napoleon by Dominic Lieven
Dazed and Confused
William Golding: The Man who wrote Lord of the Flies by John Carey
Of Human Frailty
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham by Selina Hastings
Ripping Yarns
The Storm of War by Andrew Roberts Do we really need another history of the Second World War? That’s the question that immediately comes to mind on picking up Andrew Roberts’s weighty
In Love with His Public
Charles Dickens: A Life Defined by Writing by Michael Slater
Henry the First
Kissinger's Year: 1973 by Alistair Horne
Bad Luck with the Weather
John Piper, Myfanwy Piper, Lives in Art by Frances Spalding
The Promised Land?
Balfour & Weizmann: The Zionist, the Zealot and the Declaration which Changed the World by Geoffrey Lewis'A Senseless, Squalid War': Voices from Palestine 1945-1948 by Norman RoseOne State, Two States: Resolving the
Not Tonight, Pauline
Venus of Empire: The Life of Pauline Bonaparte by Flora Fraser
The Friend who Failed
Rosenfeld's Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing by Steven J. Zipperstein
Men on the Menu
An Intellectual History of Cannibalism by Catalin Avramescu