13th June 2025


the mistreatment of Black people in Britain; from a Somali sailor wrongly convicted of murder in 1952 to Black Lives Matter.


Jill Lepore We the People John Murray, 11th, £30, HB, 9781399827041


Published in the 250th anniversary year of the American Revolution, this by a professor of American history at Harvard is billed as “the most original history of the US Constitution in over a century”.


Tom McTague Between the Waves: The Hidden History of a Very British Revolution 1945-2016


Picador, 4th, £25, HB, 9781529083095


For readers of Rory Stewart, Tim Shipman, Dominic Sandbrook and David Kynaston, a “gripping, persuasive and authoritative” account by the editor in chief of the New Statesman of Britain’s long and fractious relationship with Europe.


Ferdinand Mount Soft: A Brief History of Sentimentality


Bloomsbury Continuum, 11th, £20, HB, 9781399421881


“It is not the stoics who are ruling the roost: we are living in an age of emotion.” Exploring all the weird and wonderful ways in which people have expressed their grief and joy and in the past, this is an engaging history of human emotions, and the ways in which they have swayed civilisation from the French Revolution to civil rights and soap operas.


Thant Myint-U Peacemaker: U Thant, the United Nations and the Untold Story of the 1960s


Atlantic, 4th, £22, HB, 9781838958947


An “intimate, unparalleled” biography of the author’s grandfather, U Thant. Born in Burma, he rose from humble schoolteacher to became the United Nations’ longest serving Secretary-General and played a crucial role in the Cold War.


Katrina Navickas Contested Commons: A History of Protest and Public Space in England


Reaktion, 1st, £20, HB, 9781836391005


Taking in the contests over Trafalgar Square, Hyde Park, Cable Street, Kinder Scout and more, this is billed as a gripping overview of the


18 Elle Hervin


The Home Bird: Creating Joyful Interiors Where Old Meets New


Mitchell Beazley, 25th, £30, HB, 9781840919271


From sourcing sustainable pieces to the magic of the “dopamine decor” effect, create a modern vintage look for your home with this first book from interiors stylist Hervin who has one million followers on Instagram @elle_the_home_bird.


Paige Lewin How to Love Your Afro: Your Natural Hair Companion


Bloomsbury Tonic, 11th, £12.99, HB, 9781526686985


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increasingly restrictive policing and legislation against protest in public spaces in England. It offers lessons both positive and troubling about how we protect the right to protest.


George Owers The Rage of Party Constable, 4th, £30, HB, 9781408719091


Between 1695 and 1715, there were 10 general elections and political partisanship gripped Britain to an extent never before known. Owers tells the “dramatic and strangely neglected” story of this first burst of party politics, known as the “Rage of Party”.


Mike Pitts Island at the Edge of the World: The Forgotten History of Easter Island


Bloomsbury, 11th, £25, HB, 9781526667250


From Thor Heyerdahl to Jared Diamond, archaeologist Pitts cuts through many myths to provide a new account of the remote, mysterious and misunderstood place that is Easter Island.


Sarah Ruden Perpetua: The Woman, the Martyr


Yale, 2nd, £18.99, HB, 9780300273717


In Carthage in the year 203, Vibia Perpetua was one of five Christians who met their deaths after refusing to venerate the Roman emperor Septimius Severus and his son. Drawing on a new translation of her prison diary, this tells her story, placing her in a historical and religious context.


Dennis Sewell Turncoat: Roundhead to Royalist, the Double Life of Cromwell’s Spy


Atlantic, 4th, £25, HB, 9781786498250


First biography of George Downing who rose to prominence during the English Civil War as Oliver Cromwell’s chief of military intelligence and went on to build the street that still bears his name. Savvy soldier, diplomat, politician and spy, was he also the biggest scoundrel in Stuart England?


Emma Warren ( 6) Up the Youth Club: Illuminating a Hidden History


Faber, 11th, £18.99, HB, 9780517389216


From factory workers in Victorian Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs to the birthplaces of musical legends The Specials and Stormzy, this history of the youth club highlights its seismic influences on UK culture, arguing that we need to ensure the existence of such clubs for future generations.


Alison Weir Queens at War Cape, 18th, £25, HB, 9781910702130


The final volume of Weir’s series on the queens of medieval England is a gripping account of five women on the throne, taking in triumph, tragedy, love, loss, murder and malice in the lives of Joan of Navarre, Katherine of Valois, Margaret of Anjou, Elizabeth Wydeville and Anne Neville.


David Woodman The First King of England: Aethelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom


Princeton UP, 2nd, £30, HB, 9780691249490


From a noted chronicler of the medieval period, a new biography of the


first Anglo-Saxon king to rule over a united England. His achievement in conquering the Viking kingdom at York in 927 (almost 1,100 years ago) rivals the Norman Conquest in shaping Britain as we know it, argues Woodman.


Homes, craft, fashion & beauty


Lesley Greene Earth, Fire, Iron: Alan Evans and the New Iron Age, 1980-2025


Quickthorn, 12th, £24, HB, 9781739316099


Exploring the legacy of outstanding artist blacksmith, Alan Evans, whose design for a set of gates for the Treasury at St Paul’s Cathedral in 1980 was seen as game- changing for the craft.


Hilton Carter


Unfurled: Designing a Living Home CICO Books, 9th, £25, HB, 9781800655720


In which the plant stylist author invites us into the heart of his home, which reflects his style, creativity and love for plants, and offers advice on how to create the same looks in your own living space.


Jayne Dowle The Repair Shop: World War Two


Kyle, 4th, £25, HB, 9781804192122


The latest book from the hugely popular BBC show commemorates the 80th anniversary of the international ending of Second World War by showcasing popular repairs from the series, including a landgirl doll, an airman’s jacket and war medals.


From the host of natural hair-care podcast, Texture Talks, this guide to afro hair aims to teach you both how to manage and to fall in love with your natural hair with advice on maintenance, tools and styles, as well as self-care, diet, nutrition and lifestyle advice.


Humour & gift


Dun Beige The Secretest of Secretisms


HarperCollins, 11th, £12.99, HB, 9780008783136


Robert Wangley, the world’s least secret secretologist faces the deadliest and secretest secret of his career – one that might end the world, or something. “Definitely not exactly like all the previous ones put into a blender,” this Dan Brown parody is published alongside The Secret of Secrets.


Greg James All the Best for the Future: Growing Up Without Growing Old


Ebury Spotlight, 25th, £22, HB, 9781529912197


The host of the BBC Radio 1 Breakfast show and bestselling children’s author presents a “brilliantly warm-hearted celebration of the lost art of having fun”. Sharing things that wind him up, make him sad, make him laugh and help him get through the day, he urges us not to let go of our inner child as we navigate growing up without growing old.


Miriam Margolyes The Little Book of Miriam John Murray, 11th, £16.99, HB, 9781399826617


What do arseholes, apostrophes and ageing all have in common? They are all entries in this idiosyncratic A-Z collection of Miriam Margolyes’s wit and wisdom, including jokes,


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