Non-Fiction Review Highlights
A selection of non-fiction highlights from the review pages
The Madness of Grief
Richard Coles
Failures of State
Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott
Stop Bloody Bossing Me About
Quentin Letts
Value(s)
Mark Carney
In the Thick of It
Alan Duncan
Spring Cannot be Cancelled
Martin Gayford and David Hockney
Churchill & Son
Josh Ireland
The Brilliant Abyss
Helen Scales
Heavy Light
Horatio Clare
The Good Girls
Sonia Faleiro
The Code Breaker
Walter Isaacson
Many Different Kinds of Love
Michael Rosen
Law in a Time of Crisis
Jonathan Sumption
Birdsong in a Time of Silence
Steven Lovatt
Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Joan Didion
Friends
Robin Dunbar
The Beauty and the Terror
Catherine Fletcher
Becoming Kim Jong Un
Jung H. Pak
Difficult Women
Helen Lewis
After
Dr. Bruce Greyson, MD
Beyond Order
Jordan B. Peterson
A World Without Email
Cal Newport
The Mission
David W Brown
Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1)
Chips Channon
Futureproof
Kevin Roose
Albert & the Whale
Philip Hoare
The Nightingale
Sam Lee
The Gun, the Ship and the Pen
Linda Colley
Jews Don’t Count
David Baddiel
Snakes and Ladders
Professor Selina Todd
The Ambassadors
Robert Cooper
A Coup in Turkey
Jeremy Seal
Notes from Deep Time
Helen Gordon
The Western Front
Nick Lloyd
Frostquake
Juliet Nicolson
To the Lake
Kapka Kassabova
Islands of Abandonment
Cal Flyn
Fall
John Preston
The Ministry of Bodies
Seamus O'Mahony
River Kings
Cat Jarman
Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again
Katherine Angel
Begin Again
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
A Still Life
Josie George
The Wild Track
Margaret Reynolds
Gay Bar
Jeremy Atherton Lin
The New Age of Empire
Kehinde Andrews
The Crichel Boys
Simon Fenwick
Under a White Sky
Elizabeth Kolbert
Hitler: Volume II
Volker Ullrich
Until the End of Time
Brian Greene
Conflicted
Ian Leslie
Princes of the Renaissance
Mary Hollingsworth
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
Bill Gates
Bessie Smith
Jackie Kay
"Kay's book is the amplifier that Smith's voice deserves" Sunday Times
The First Kingdom
Max Adams
'Adams is a wonderful writer and the interpretations he provides of complex arguments rooted in archaeology, or linguistics, or genetics, expertly convey the sheer excitement of research into the period. ' Sunday Times
Britain Alone
Philip Stephens
"an instant classic"
Peter Hennessy
Thin Places
Kerri ni Dochartaigh
"sustained imaginative power" in writing about Derry
The Observer
Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires
Richard Bradford
"strange life of Patricia Highsmith"
Sunday Times
Blood and Iron
Katja Hoyer
"fluently written brilliant account of Bismarckian Germany"
The Telegraph
Francis Bacon
Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
"must surely count as definitive"
The Times
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
George Saunders
"flawlessly designed for the exam we all sit without realising: life"
The Spectator
The Emperor's Feast
Jonathan Clements
"a splendid introduction to the cooking and history of China"
The Guardian
The Changing of the Guard
Simon Akam
"Akam is an angry young man and the book is better for it." The Times "excellent and valuable." The Guardian
Two-Way Mirror
Fiona Sampson
"empathetic and much-needed." Daily Telegraph