Swallowing the Party Line
The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome by Roland Chambers
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Arms and the Man
The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One by David Kilcullen; War Since 1990 and War: A Short History by Jeremy Black
Cycle of Violence
The Last Crusaders: The Hundred-Year Battle for the Centre of the World by Barnaby Rogerson
Doctor in the House
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
D-Day’s Divided Divisions
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor
The Odd Couple
The Philosophers' Quarrel: Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding by Robert Zaretsky and John T. Scott
Vocal Heroes
Tenor: History of a Voice by John Potter
Marx’s Capitalist
The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels by Tristram Hunt
Freaked Out
The Marvelous Hairy Girls by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Desperation’s Noticeboard
Classified: The Secret History of the Personal Column by H.G. Cocks
Birds of a Feather
Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce by Sarah A. Stein The ostrich is an exceedingly ugly bird with beautiful feathers – so beautiful that for four decades
All Human Life is Here
The Arabian Nights translated by Malcolm C. Lyons with Ursula Lyons, introduced and annotated by Robert Irwi