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A sweeping new history on the endurance of empire highlights our offerings, which include a look at the torrid side of writer Jean Rhys, an elegant critique of the Oxford Tories that reshaped Britain, an interview with Jokha Alharthi about her new novel — plus a round-up of the best new thrillers and much more
An elegant, occasionally black and white, critique of the elite UK university that nurtured a generation of anti-European Tories
An enjoyable investigation into imitation, imposture and the impossible search for our ‘real selves’
A persuasive study dusts off the maps in going back millennia to unravel Britain’s relationship with Europe
Dominic Lieven takes in empires from Mughal to British and asks: what made them the dominant form of government for centuries?
In his guide to eight UK buildings, Barnabas Calder finds beauty in a style whose negative image was cemented in the 1960s
Miranda Seymour’s sympathetic biography balances the torrid aspects of the writer’s life with insight into her literary influences
Jeet Thayil’s selection of poems written in English is a dazzling collection vast in ambition and scope
An economist’s primer on the UK Treasury over the past 25 years highlights how the office has struggled to change with the times
What separates autocrats from outright dictators? Two books consider the path to power, from Erdoğan’s rise in Turkey to strongmen leaders around the world
This careful retelling of two millennia of history celebrates the country’s economic and cultural success but ignores its dark sides
This very readable account of an institution in flux is entertaining but light on revelations
How China built influence in the US — and the professor who coined ‘G-Zero’ on the response to our present global crises
A moving account of the 80-year quest to restore a Jewish writer’s name to a bestselling Viennese cooking guide
Yascha Mounk’s ‘The Great Experiment’ looks at how faltering heterogeneous societies can thrive
Did rabid libertarianism cause the shift towards nativist populism? Two books cite different hypotheses for the fracturing of Republicanism
A compelling geopolitical travelogue explores Beijing’s growing influence in Central Asia
An examination of precognitions and the fascination with them in 1960s Britain proves an entertaining study of the mind and the human quest for control
Matthew Green’s time-trip through vanished towns and cities offers an urgent reminder of what may lie ahead
A timely and enthralling study focuses on six cases of atomic energy disasters, including Chernobyl, Fukushima and Three Mile Island
The murder of Sarah Everard is at the core of Harriet Johnson’s book — but what can she add that feminists haven’t said for decades?
A journalistic exposé of a maritime fraud raises compelling questions about the morality of London shipping finance
Katherine Rundell’s remarkable biography captures the many selves of the extraordinarily gifted Elizabethan poet
John Walsh’s celebrity-strewn memoir recalls a golden age of British publishing
Madcap visions and miniatures fill a landscape architect’s guided tour through the stranger corners of English garden design
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