Some may have supposed that Thubron had done his last Big Journey (he is now 82), but this is arguably his biggest yet, and most arduous. Indomitable,...

Craxton, that wonderful painter and funny, lovely man, could be in no better hands than Ian Collins’s… This biography is all that might be hoped for –...

James Marriott and his co-author Terry Macalister have spent decades researching and writing about the oil industry. Their new book plunges us into th...

The former head of the National Gallery, NPG and Royal Academy talks openly about the art museum's place in society today.   Edited by Magnus Rena   M...

OL talks to Magnus Rena about her new book, Everybody: A Book about Freedom. It's a sweeping, collective biography of a dozen glamorous but stifled fi...

The horsemen of the title are those of the Apocalypse, the terrifying outriders of war, pestilence, famine and death. Dr Mayhew considers developments...

Helena's citrusy history of Italy, The Land Where Lemons Grow, sold by the armful when it came out in 2014. Her new book tells the story of one fragil...

In European medieval cities, literacy rates among adult males was only 25%, dwindling to 1% in villages. At the same time in Florence it was 70%. So w...

Not so much a sequel to ‘The Hare with Amber Eyes’, this short, superb and immensely powerful book is nevertheless complementary to his earlier book. ...

Roland Philips' new book, Victoire, is a gripping story of espionage, seduction and double-crossing. It follows Mathilde Carré, a spy in the intellige...