BOOKS


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Graphic novels


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Peter Bogucki The Barbarians Lost Civilizations, 1st, £12.95, 9781789149265 New account of the Barbarians, from the Stone Age to the Roman empire and their legacy.


Ed Brubaker, Darwyn Cooke (illus) Catwoman: Trail of the Catwoman DC Comics, 1st, £8.99, 9781779527288 Selina Kyle returns as Catwoman after attempt- ing to leave the costumed world behind. Affordable, full-colour DC Compact Comics edition.


Scott Snyder, Stephen King, Rafael Albuquerque (illus) American Vampire: Book One DC Comics, 1st, £8.99, 9781779527349 The introduction of the very first American vampire in the Old West. A DC Compact Comics edition.


History, politics & current affairs


Paul Baker Camp!: The Story of the Attitude That Conquered the World Footnote Press, 3rd, £10.99, 9781804440469 Camp’s rebellious and revolutionary past traced to the mainstream in the present day.


Peter James Bowman The Real Persuasion: Portrait of a Real-Life Jane Austen Heroine Amberley Publishing, 15th, £11.99, 9781398122574 How the story of Anne Elliot in Austen’s Persuasion has a real-life counterpart in Katherine Bisshopp, the clever, beautiful daughter of a Regency Sussex family.


Matt Chorley, Morten Morland (illus) Planes, Trains and Toilet Doors: 50 Places That Changed British Politics William Collins, 10th, £10.99, 9780008622091 Political journalist Chorley examines the remarkable places which have changed the course of our politics. Illustrated by award- winning political cartoon- ist Morten Morland.


Iain Dale


John Buckley, Spencer Jones The Armchair General WW1: Can You Win The Great War? Penguin, 10th, £10.99, 9781804941898 How the First World War could have panned out in different ways, examin- ing eight crucial moments in the conflict.


On This Day in Politics: Britain’s Political History in 365 Days Allen & Unwin, 3rd, £12.99, 9781838954772 Political broadcaster and short-lived Conservative candidate for Tunbridge Wells MP surveys signifi- cant events in Britain’s political history one day at a time.


Diana Darke The Ottomans: A Cultural Legacy Tames&Hudson, 3rd, £12.99, 9780500298183 An illustrated guide to the Ottoman Empire, a century after its dissolu- tion, considering its complex cultural legacy.


in the last two tumultu- ous decades, detailing the cultural politics of emergency, the neoliberal makeover of art institu- tions and transformations in media.


Julian Gewirtz Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s Belknap Press, 25th, £19.95, 9780674297241 A reappraisal of the Communist Party of China’s once diverse attitudes to markets, state control and technological change in the 1980s.


Joachim C Häberlen Beauty is in the Street: Protest and Counterculture in Post-War Europe Penguin, 3rd, £12.99, 9780141994963 The power of cultural protest, in its many forms, seen across Europe in the wake of the Second World War. “An amiable history of countercultural agita- tors,” said the Observer.


Robin Lane Fox Homer and His Iliad Penguin, 10th, £14.99, 9780141997797 Study of Homer’s epic poem set in context by Lane Fox’s discoveries about long heroic poems composed elsewhere in the world, and new archaeological evidence.


important cases and clients from half a century of practice, showing how people can unite for last- ing and positive change.


Jill Lepore The American Beast: Essays, 2012-2022 John Murray, 3rd, £12.99, 9781399810197 Essays from historian Lepore charting American life across a decade of polarisation, considering the country’s violent past and fractured present.


Liam Byrne


The Inequality of Wealth: Why It Matters and How To Fix It Apollo, 9th, £10.99, 9781804543399 Former Treasury Minister Byrne explains why wealth inequality has grown so fast in recent years and how to counter it. A “remarkable polemic”, said the TLS.


Ned Blackhawk The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History Yale University Press, 8th, £14.99, 9780300276671 A retelling of American history acknowledging Indigenous peoples and voices. Winner of the 2023 National Book Award in Nonfiction.


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Caroline Campbell The Power of Art: A World History in Fifteen Cities Te Bridge Street Press, 10th, £14.99, 9780349128498 Curator Campbell explores remarkable acts of creation in 15 global cities at pivotal moments of artistic bril- liance. “Taut in its telling and rich in detail,” said Country Life.


Hettie Judah The Secret Lives of Stones John Murray, 24th, £16.99, 9781529394955 From the hematite used in cave paintings to the unexpected acoustics of Stonehenge, how rocks and minerals are central to our history. “A delight- ful storybook,” said the Literary Review.


Patricia Evangelista Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in the Philippines Grove Press UK, 17th, £12.99, 9781804710081 A chronicle of six years of the Philippines’ drug war, carried out by police and vigilantes in the name of President Duterte. Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction.


Hal Foster What Comes After Farce?: Art and Criticism at a Time of Debacle Verso, 22nd, £12.99, 9781804295939


Shifts in art and criticism


François Kersaudy Kersten’s Lists: A Saviour in the Depths of Hell Mountain Leopard Press, 10th, £12.99, 9781800699069 True story of Himmler’s masseur who used his influence over the SS commander to save the lives of over 100,000 people.


David Kenyon Arctic Convoys: Bletchley Park and the War for the Seas Yale University Press, 22nd, £11.99, 9780300279351 Story of the Second World War in the Arctic, and the role played by Bletchley Park signals intelligence.


Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt Tyranny of the Minority: How to Reverse an Authoritarian Turn, and Forge a Democracy for All Penguin, 3rd, £10.99, 9780241996584 How global democracies are unravelling and what can be done to reverse this. “An excep- tionally perceptive and wide-ranging book,” said the TLS.


Antony Loewenstein The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World Verso, 8th, £12.99, 9781839762093 How Israel has become a global leader in spying technology and defence hardware and how the export of these fuels many global conflicts.


Frank McDonough The Weimar Years: Rise and Fall 1918–1933 Apollo, 10th, £12.99, 9781803284798 How Germany’s hopes for democracy, stability and prosperity were shattered in the dramatic period after the First World War that led to the rise of Hitler in 1933.


Christopher Miller The War Came To Us: Life and Death in Ukraine Bloomsbury Continuum, 24th, £10.99, 9781399406789 A view of the conflict in Ukraine from a journalist who has lived and worked there for over a decade. This paperback edition features a new foreword and photographs.


Anne L Murphy Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England Princeton University Press, 22nd, £14.99, 9780691248523 How a private organiza- tion became the guardian of British public credit and the nation’s economic and geopolitical power, draw- ing on the minute books of a bank inspection from the 1780s.


Michael Mansfield The Power in the People: How We Can Change The World Monoray, 10th, £10.99, 9781800961456 Veteran barrister Mansfield revisits his most


Alexander Nemerov The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s Princeton University Press, 15th, £14.99, 9780691264523 Merging historical and invented figures, Nemerov tells how a wide variety of Americans experienced their lives in the 1830s. Based on the 2017 A W Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts.


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