Oliver Bullough Everybody Loves Our Dollars How Money Laundering Won with Gerry Foley This wildly entertaining exposé of the dark financial secrets at the heart of the world economy explains how money-laundering works. In the criminal world, cash is still king. Barter is pretty good too and crypto currencies flow through paper ledgers. There has […]
Steve Brusatte The Story of Birds with Matthew Stadlen In The Story of Birds, in delightfully energetic prose, expert palaeontologist Steve Brusatte takes us through their 150-million-year history, from their origins among small carnivorous dinosaurs to the 10,000-plus species that thrive today. Sunday Times Book of the Week on publication in June, Steve will be […]
Alanna Skuse The Surgeon, the Midwife and the Quack How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England with Kate Harris Alanna Skuse ventures into the bustling medical marketplace of Renaissance England - a world of travelling surgeons, prosthetics craftsmen, faith healers and snake oil merchants. But a medical revolution was afoot and this book evokes the […]
Catherine Mayer Divide & Rule Royal Women and their Battles with Steven Gale Catherine Mayer uncovers the extraordinary women behind the myths. Her portraits of Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I, Victoria, Elizabeth II, Diana, Camilla, Kate and Meghan are fascinating, poignant, surprising and enraging, revealing them in all their complexity, charting their achievements, quirks, kindnesses, cruelties […]
Jane Rogoyska Paris in the Shadow of War with Gavin Mortimer In the 1930s, the Hotel Lutetia on Paris’s Left Bank hosted exiled Germans. But when war broke out, it became the headquarters of the German military intelligence service. In 1945, It was requisitioned as a reception centre for deportees returning from concentration camps. Hotel […]
James Campbell The Men Who Created Winnie-the-Pooh The Lives of A.A. Milne and E.H.Shepard with Peter Guttridge To mark the centenary of the first tales of Winnie-the-Pooh, James Campbell’s fascinating book tells the story of the men whose partnership brought about these iconic characters. Illustrated with excerpts from original manuscripts and drawings, unseen draft illustrations, […]
Stephen McGinty One Morning in March: Dunblane and the Shooting that Changed Britain with Julian Worricker Thirty years ago, a man walked into a Dunblane Primary School and shot dead a teacher and 16 children before killing himself. Stephen McGinty recounts the lead-up to that day and the powerful true story of how a band […]