Money to Burn (Penge på lommen, 2020) is the first in a projected seven-novel series by the Danish poet and novelist Asta ...

The Museum of Lost and Fragile Things is a fever dream of a book, gripping and trippy. Suzanne Joinson, a bestselling ...

According to many scholars in a variety of social sciences and economic disciplines, the world has, over the past two decades ...

Recently republished by Virago, with an illuminating foreword by Camilla Grudova, Caroline Blackwood’s The Fate of Mary Rose ...

In the shadow of St Peter’s Basilica, across the piazza degli scalpellini, or “square of the stonecutters”, lies another, more ancient structure.

Unlike almost any other conflict, the First World War has never loosened its grip on the scholarly or public imagination. More than a century after the ...

544pp. Hamish Hamilton. £25.

The practice of hunting with birds has existed in Eurasia for at least 4,000 years. Probably originating in the East, it spread westwards, reaching its apogee in western Europe during the Middle Ages.

On the urging of a cave diver she knew, Ange Mlinko read Friday (1967), the revisionist Robinson Crusoe tale by Michel Tournier. Though she admired the novel, she was horrified at the premiss of ...

The failings of Nicholas II as a ruler are widely accepted by western historians, and even by those who praise his virtues as a husband and a father. In his new history of the end of Romanov rule, ...

Giant Love is the journalist Julie Gilbert’s passion project. As the great-niece and biographer of Edna Ferber, she offers unparalleled insight into the Pulitzer winner’s life and legacy. In this work ...

In May 1944, a group of young German soldiers found themselves in the Crimea, surrounded by a rampant Red Army. Facing certain death, three of them could think of no other means of escape than to swim ...