Lovin', Touchin', Squeeezin'
/It has three hearts, eight tentacles, and a brain of startling and utterly alien complexity - it's the octopus, and a heartfelt book takes readers inside the cephalopod world.
Read MoreNo Doubters in the Shipyards
/Celebrated biographer H. W. Brands has written the first full-dress of Ronald Reagan since the former president's death in 2004 - but does Reagan elude him, as he has so many biographers? Steve Donoghue reviews.
Read MoreNobody’s Novel
/In Anna North's new novel, many narrative voices attempt to tell the story of film director Sophie Stark - but can any number of perspectives reveal an essentially unknowable character? Katie Gemmill reviews.
Read MoreScala or Piolo? The Painstaking Brilliance of Alessandro Manzoni
/Poet, dramatist, and author of the great Italian novel I promessi sposi, Alessandro Manzoni led a life as fascinating as his fiction. Luciano Mangiafico tells the story of the Father of Italian Prose.
Read MoreBook Review: Fastest Things on Wings
/A group of rescuers in Southern California treat the most delicate patients imaginable: injured hummingbirds
Read MoreBook Review: Noise Matters
/A genuinely thought-provoking new work of science-writing probes the nature - and even the value - of noise
Read MoreBook Review: Goethe
/A short new biography seeks to do the impossible: encompass the Protean life of Goethe in only a handful of pages. Robert Minto reviews.
Read MoreBook Review: First Over There
/On a chilly day in late May, 1918, American troops went into battle in the World War I for the first time - a gripping new history tells the story
Read MoreIn Paperback: Vesuvius
/Now in paperback: a fascinating history of mankind's interactions with the most famous volcano in the world
Read MoreClassics Reissued: Gallipoli
/The mad debacle of the Dardanelles campaign is now 100 years in the past, and to mark the anniversary, a classic account is reprinted
Read MoreBook Review: The Great War of Our Time
/A former deputy director of the CIA reflects on his time on the front lines in this frustrating memoir
Read MoreBook Review: The Unraveling
/A former key player in the Coalition's conquest and administration of Iraq reflects on her time there
Read MoreBook Review: The Eye Stone
/A young monk goes on a desperate quest in the 12th century - to a fable city called Venetia
Read MoreBook Review: The Obelisk and the Englishman
/The pioneering English Egyptologist William Bankes gets a smart and vivacious new biography
Read MoreBook Review: Apologetic Writings
/In Florence of the 1490s, a ranting Dominican friar picked a fight with the wrong Pope and lost badly. A new I Tatti volume translates the bickering before the bonfire.
Read MoreBook Review: An Ember in the Ashes
/A plucky, unlikely teen heroine and a brooding, idealistic teen hero form an unlikely relationship as they fight the oppression of their world in ... well, every single YA novel ever written, including this one.
Read MoreBook Review: Fracture
/In the wake of the First World War, unimaginable energies were unleashed upon the societies of the Western world. A fascinating new book attempts to assess the results.
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