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A biography of the restless, dazzling and dubious Sir George Downing: Pepys was his clerk; Milton wrote his letters; Wren was his surveyor (in the eponymous street).

Turncoat: Roundhead to Royalist, the Double Life of Cromwell’s Spy

Dennis Sewell

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How the 90% lived and how they became a political match for the elite (organising, along the way, the world's first general strike).

Plebs Romana: People, Politics and Power in Ancient Rome

Peter Jones

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Chronicles the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, which was catalyzed by the death of Mahsa Jina Amini following her arrest and beating for not wearing her hijab properly.

For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran’s Women-led Uprising

Nilo Tabrizy

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Seldon walked a thousand miles along the Western Front and wrote about it movingly in The Path of Peace. Now he's walked from where WWI ended to Auschwitz. Much anticipated.

The Path of Light: Walking to Auschwitz

Anthony Seldon

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A compelling account of what we know about black holes, including how our pursuit of knowledge of the void led us towards the invention of Wifi, the calibration of GPS and critical evidence... read more

Facing Infinity: Black Holes and Our Place on Earth

Jonas Enander

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Blowing hot and cold: an intense look at the relationship between Joan Didion and Eve Babitz, using previously unpublished letters and other sources to explore their closeness and their late... read more

Didion & Babitz

Lili Anolik

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The archetypal frontier town - a promising place for both immigrants and ne'er-do-wells.

Deadwood: Gold, Guns and Greed in the American West

Peter Cozzens

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£25

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A brilliant angle on the Cold War. By his grandson.

Peacemaker: U Thant, the United Nations and the Untold Story of the 1960s

Thant Myint-U

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£22

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Goncourt-winning historical love story.

Watching Over Her

Jean-Baptiste Andrea

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The tragi-comic tribulations of an American family.

Vera, Or Faith

Gary Shteyngart

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Set in Cairo in 1938, when a woman goes to look for her estranged father who has mysteriously disappeared...

Cairo Gambit

S. W. Perry

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Wry, chatty, glitzy memoir by the former editor of Vanity Fair, staff writer for Time and Life, and co-creator of Spy. His stable of writers included Christopher Hitchens, Fran Lebowitz and ... read more

When the Going Was Good: An Editor’s Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines

Graydon Carter

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The Kings Head: A Times historical fiction book of the month 2025

Kelly Frost

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Dream Work

Mary Oliver

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Rollicking tragi-comedy of effort and squander.

The Fall of the House of Montagu: Dukedom, Debauchery and the Demise of a Dynast

Robert Wainwright

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A provocative, personal series of essays looking at the encroachment of technology - AI, Twitter, Google et al - on our autonomy, independence and privacy. But it's SO convenient...

Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age

Vauhini Vara

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Racketteers, bent politicians and suspect emigres in 1950's London.

Smoke and Embers

John Lawton

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By the American professor of journalism and political science.

Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza

Peter Beinart

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Feast and famine, groaning boards and war-time want.

Stuffed: A Political History of What We Eat and Why it Matters

Pen Vogler

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Blowing hot and cold: an intense look at the relationship between Joan Didion and Eve Babitz, using previously unpublished letters and other sources to explore their closeness and their late... read more

Didion & Babitz

Lili Anolik

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Sea-grass meadows and forests of swaying kelp; ethical and sustainable fishing - there is hope for our seas as well as the existential threat to them from deep-sea mining. In the running for... read more

What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World’s Ocean

Helen Scales

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In the 1550s, a Venetian public servant produced three anonymous volumes of geographical data, some of it well known, some hitherto secret: Renaissance Wikileaks.

This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World

Andrea di Robilant

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From ancient Sumer to the slaughter of the last royal family on the palace steps in Baghdad in 1958.

Land Between the Rivers: A 5000-Year History of Iraq

Bartle Bull

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A teenage runaway and a young boxer, both Irish, meet in 1970s London. This fine novel follows their overlapping fortunes through the decades.

Our London Lives

Christine Dwyer Hickey

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Two stints of teaching (in the 1990s and then 2019-2021) and a journalist's eye inform this keen account of the changing lives of ordinary people.

Other Rivers: A Chinese Education

Peter Hessler

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LB could turn straw into gold. Here she describes chancing across the writings of a rather obscure Greek philosopher, and the wonders and illuminations that followed. Transformative.

Looking for Theophrastus: Travels in Search of a Lost Philosopher

Laura Beatty

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Johnson at 10: The Inside Story

Anthony Seldon

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On his death in 2014, George Lucas left his diaries - spanning 60 years and pertaining not to his career as a civil servant but to his after-hours pursuits - to their editor.

The Diaries of Mr Lucas: Notes from a Lost Gay Life

Hugo Greenhalgh

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An awe-inspiring epic about a young Dutch microbiologist whose research takes her on a deep dive into sea and space. These journeys raise profound questions about the origin of life, our pla... read more

In Ascension

Martin MacInnes

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The Covenant of Water

Abraham Verghese

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The Hidden Horticulturists: The Working-Class Men Who Shaped Britain’s Gardens

Fiona Davison

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Two Women in Rome: ‘Beautifully atmospheric’ Adele Parks

Elizabeth Buchan

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Chief of Staff: An Insider’s Account of Downing Street’s Most Turbulent Years

Gavin Barwell

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Late Cuts: Musings on cricket

Vic Marks

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The Path of Peace: Walking the Western Front Way

Anthony Seldon

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Kampfner began his career as a journalist reporting from East Berlin. Since then he has quartered the city, searched archives, interviewed widely. He loves this city. His last book - Why the... read more

In Search Of Berlin: The Story of A Reinvented City

John Kampfner

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