Summer Books 2025 Archives

Wool barons, pirates and Pole-seekers in South Georgia, Tierra del Fuego, Uruguay: kaleidoscopic.

Small Earthquakes: A Journey Through Lost British History in South Ame ...

Shafik Meghji

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Doing the hokey-cokey with Europe - and who danced with whom - by the astute political observer.

Between the Waves: The Hidden History of a Very British Revolution 194 ...

Tom McTague

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Set in 2119 after the UK is mostly submerged by rising seas, McEwan's latest combines a Ballardian dystopia with a deft mystery - a case of a disappearing poem rather than a body in the libr... read more

What We Can Know

Ian McEwan

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From the C19th century to the present.

Queer Lens: A History of Photography

Paul Martineau

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A passionate love affair across the social divide in the years after the Spanish Civil War. First English translation of Mars?'s 1996 masterpiece.

Last Evenings with Teresa

Juan Marse

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An astonishing study from disparate sources of a little-understood phenomenon.

Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in t ...

Justin Marozzi

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The art - or work - of living, by the great photographer who also happens to string thoughts and words together better than most.

Art Work: On the Creative Life

Sally Mann

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The story of four convulsive years in which a bunch of outsize characters grabbed what they could and transformed the city.

The Gods of New York: The Tumultuous Eighties, from Donald Trump to th ...

Jonathan Mahler

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After Guy Burgess, the Mountbattens and the Duke of Windsor, the Yorks must be trembling.

Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York

Andrew Lownie

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A fine illustrated study of this Romantic palace.

The Royal Pavilion, Brighton: A Regency Palace of Colour and Sensation ...

Alexandra Loske

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By the author of the excellent Buddhism: A Journey through History.

The Buddha: Biography of a Myth

Donald S Lopez

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Drawn from thirteen collections and published to mark his 85th birthday.

Ash Keys: New Selected Poems

Michael Longley

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By the bestselling Chinese master of sci-fi, author of The Three-Body Problem.

The Collected Short Stories

Cixin Liu

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Lispector's last novel follows Macabea, a poor, sickly typist living in the slums of Rio who dreams of glamour but lives a life defined by invisibility and powerlessness. The narrator Rodrig... read more

Hour of the Star

Clarice Lispector

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Ravishingly illustrated with ink wash and brush, this is a tale about a mythological creature that inhabits China's primeval forests and a mischievous wind. Together they encounter a lake, a... read more

Take a Walk with the Wind

Xiong Liang

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A new translation of the work of China's most celebrated classical woman poet: separated from us by a millennium, her voice is clear, her themes familiar, her images vibrant.

The Magpie at Night

Qingzhao Li

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A fascinating exploration of the Romantic idea of genius, and how this is (mis)used to distort and justify outrages.

The Genius Myth: The Dangerous Allure of Rebels, Monsters and Rule-Bre ...

Helen Lewis

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A huge biography - by a seasoned practitioner - of this zany, difficult, unhappy and brilliant man.

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

Roger Lewis

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A writer, poet, painter and doctor, Levi was banished to the remote and extremely poor region of Lucania for his opposition to Mussolini's regime. Described as a documentary novel, this is a... read more

Christ Stopped at Eboli

Carlo Levi

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Gorgeous turquoise and coral, gold and pearl. Meticulous research - including interviews with the last surviving Lhasa noblewomen and goldsmiths - makes this a rich cultural history of Centr... read more

Tibetan Women’s Jewelry

Lynn Levenberg

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From the 1780s to (almost) the present; with particular reference to the roles of the Amendment and the Supreme Court. Lepore is a professor at Harvard.

We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution

Jill Lepore

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A second volume of memoir.

Backstage: Stories of a Writing Life

Donna Leon

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Edited by the author of the ingenious thriller Untraceable. Includes lesser-known modern writers as well as Nabokov, Mandelstam, Gogol et al.

Defiant Voices: Russian Short Stories from the 19th to the 21st Centur ...

Sergei Lebedev

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Steaming copper pots, slotted spoons and sieves: scenes from the film Le goût des choses come to mind!

Larousse French Cooking: The Definitive Collection of Classic Recipes ...

Editions Larousse

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Gloriously gothick fantasy about Pier Francesco Orsini, the creator of the Italian 'garden of the monsters' with its vast stone mouths and leaning buildings. An historical novel to beat them... read more

Bomarzo

Manuel Mujica Lainez

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Like the eponymous strip, this book has no clear beginning or end: Lacey's blend of fiction and biography meet somewhere in the middle, physically and intellectually. These separate but comp... read more

The Moebius Book

Catherine Lacey

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Pepys and his many women, in a new transcription.

The Confessions of Samuel Pepys: His Private Revelations ...

Guy de la Bédoyère

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Less well known than her brother (Marcel), she was also a Dadaist. This accompanies a retrospective in Zurich.

Suzanne Duchamp: Retrospective

Talia Kwartler

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Fabulous, cinematic photos of the American west and its cowboys, seen through Nebraskan eyes wearing shades by Ansel Adams.

Frontier

Jim Krantz

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Catalogue of an extensive retrospective at the Hungarian National Gallery for the distinctive, solitary Hungarian master (1901-1966).

Shadowless: The Art of Gyula Czimra

Marianna Kolozsvary

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Various animals use different heavy machinery - a crane to move a piano, a cement lorry to stir pancake batter... Very funny, also quite nerdishly informative and with good illustrations. Ag... read more

Diggers, Dozers, and Dumpers: Small Stories about Big Machines ...

Ole Koennecke

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What happened to Matisse's art when he spent the winter in Morocco in 1912.

Matisse in Morocco: A Journey of Light and Color

Jeff Koehler

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A successful actress meets a young man at a New York restaurant who claims to be her son. Instead of resolving the ambiguity or allegation of that relationship, this short novel considers - ... read more

Audition

Katie M. Kitamura

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Essays from five decades.

Putting Myself Together

Jamaica Kincaid

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A huge novel of sibling rivalry and the push-me-pull-you of inhabiting two cultures, spanning thirty years and three continents. Khemiri teaches creative writing on the prestigious NYU cours... read more

The Sisters

Jonas Hassen Khemiri

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More delights from the author of Zaitoun and Saffron Tales.

Sabzi: Fresh Vegetarian Recipes for Everyday

Yasmin Khan

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A new collection.

The Book of Jonah

Luke Kennard

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Sharp, probing and morbidly funny, the book is a fictional retelling of the life of surrealist Austrian film director G W Pabst. Faced with relative anonymity in Hollywood, Pabst returned to... read more

The Director

Daniel Kehlmann

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A meticulous, fascinating account of the labour, scandal and chicanery beneath the fortunes of nine heiresses and their influence in politics and art.

Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance and Caribbean Slavery ...

Miranda Kaufmann

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It's been a while since there was a decent illustrated book available on Clubland. This shows all the old stalwarts but also novices such as Soho House and Ned's.

The London Club: Architecture, Interiors, Art

Andrew Jones

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After his sequence of whodunnits set in Venice, here is the first in a new series set in Sicily.

The Magus of Sicily

Philip Gwynne Jones

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Bauer has known the exiled Tibetan leader for over thirty years. These photographs document some of his more private, solitary moments as well as his public appearances and religious activit... read more

Dalai Lama: Photographs by Manuel Bauer. 1990-2024

Thupten Jinpa

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Catalogue of an exhibition at the Leopold Museum in Vienna.

Egon Schiele: Last Years 1914-1918

Kerstin Jesse

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Carefully researched and sensitive to the influences of love and location, this is a fine account of the poet's life.

Alexandrian Sphinx: The Hidden Life of Constantine Cavafy ...

Peter Jeffreys

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A powerful novel about teenage boys in Oslo during the Nazi Occupation, whose usual dodging suddenly gets serious.

The Unworthy

Roy Jacobsen

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An account of the investigation by the German newspaper Handelsblatt following an approach by an ex-employee of Tesla: makes for startling reading.

The Tesla Files: A whistleblower, a Leak, a Fight for Truth: The Insid ...

S?nke Iwersen

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A gorgeous book on the C17th Imperial Villa in Kyoto, with maps, drawings & photographs.

Katsura: Imperial Villa

Arata Isozaki

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Begins with the Nakba of 1948.

A Short History of the Gaza Strip

Anne Irfan

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A useful narrative of the book's writing, reception and legacy.

Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel

Mark Hussey

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Catalogue of an exhibition at the Ashmolean, in which William's daughter - who was crucial to the work that went out under his name - is brought into the light.

May Morris: The Essence and Soul of Beautiful Embroidery ...

Lynn Hulse

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Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Sweden and Finland... Pickled dandelion buds anyone? Or rhubarb sorbet?

Scandinavia: Recipes and Ingredients

Gisli Egill Hrafnsson

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Large format, illustrated and very wonderful! For ages 6-12.

The Boy Who Became a Parrot: A Foolish Biography of Edward Lear, Who I ...

Wolverton Hill

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A love story in - and of - Croatia.

Slanting Towards the Sea

Lidija Hilje

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The ninth book in the series that began with the terrific Slow Horses.

Clown Town

Mick Herron

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Medea for the modern age.

No Friend to This House

Natalie Haynes

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The author of one of the best books on Marie Antoinette shows how an apparently functional regime descended - how quickly! - into chaos

The French Revolution: A Political History

John Hardman

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Beguiling, compelling novel about a Cumbrian wind - which occupies a Neolithic tribe, a wizard in the Dark Ages, a Victorian engineer and a contemporary scientist.

Helm

Sarah Hall

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An intriguing look at the revolutions through the prism of Lenin's train journey, Mao's Long March and Castro's return to Cuba from his Mexican exile.

Three Revolutions: Russia, China, Cuba and the Epic Journeys that Chan ...

Simon Hall

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A gorgeous two-vol set in a slipcase, by the prince of the Polaroid: mostly details of objects in his house in Arles - and flaahs...

Francois Halard: Art & Flowers

Francois Halard

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The author, who died in 2020 and left this book unfinished, knew Durrell well. Happily, the completed chapters cover the busiest portions of his friend's life: childhood in India, youthful m... read more

Larry: A New Biography of Lawrence Durrell, 1912-1945 ...

Michael Haag

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