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24 D J Taylor
Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World John Walsh
art of the shelfie 26 Emma Smith
money & power 28 Darrin M McMahon
A Brief History of Inequality Thomas Piketty 29 Richard Cockett
Butler to the World: How Britain Became the Servant of Tycoons, Tax Dodgers, Kleptocrats and Criminals Oliver Bullough 30 Owen Bennett-Jones
The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World Gideon Rachman
town & country 32 Lee Jackson
The Mercenary River: Private Greed, Public Good – A History of London’s Water Nick Higham 33 Tim Richardson
English Garden Eccentrics: Three Hundred Years of Extraordinary Groves, Burrowings, Mountains and Menageries Todd Longstaffe-Gowan 35 Jerry White
The Making of our Urban Landscape Geoffrey Tyack
general 36 Raymond Tallis
The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World Iain McGilchrist 38 Iain Bamforth
This Mortal Coil: A History of Death Andrew Doig 39 John Vidal
Supercharge Me: Net Zero Faster Eric Lonergan & Corinne Sawers • Fire and Flood: A People’s History of Climate Change Eugene Linden • The Stockholm Paradigm: Climate Change and Emerging Disease Daniel R Brooks, Eric P Hoberg & Walter A Boeger 41 Tim Smith-Laing
Luck: A Personal Account of Fortune, Chance and Risk in Thirteen Investigations David Flusfeder • Big Snake, Little Snake: An Inquiry into Risk DBC Pierre 42 Suzanne Moore
The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation Cathy O’Neil 43 Jonathan Meades
The Car: The Rise and Fall of the Machine that Made the Modern World Bryan Appleyard
44 Michael Smith
This is How Your Marriage Ends: A Hopeful Approach to Saving Relationships Matthew Fray 45 Stephen Taylor
The Ship Asunder: A Maritime History of Britain in Eleven Vessels Tom Nancollas 46 Joan Smith
When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold Alia Trabucco Zerán
fiction 48 Anthony Cummins
Young Mungo Douglas Stuart 49 Claudia FitzHerbert
Companion Piece Ali Smith 50 James Purdon
Elizabeth Finch Julian Barnes 51 Alice Jolly
The Chosen Elizabeth Lowry 52 Nikhil Krishnan
Run & Hide Pankaj Mishra 53 Ethan Croft
Trespasses Louise Kennedy • We Were Young Niamh Campbell 54 J S Barnes
Sea of Tranquility Emily St John Mandel • Metronome Tom Watson 55 Kevin Brazil
The Geometer Lobachevsky Adrian Duncan 56 Patrick Graney
Witches Brenda Lozano • Paradais Fernanda Melchor
fiction in brief 57 The Odyssey Lara Williams • Parallel Hells Leon Craig • Your Show Ashley Hickson-Lovence
crime 58 Natasha Cooper
silenced voices 60 Lucy Popescu
bookends 64 Rebecca Lee
competition 40 Fergus Butler-Gallie sets a monthly challenge
42 LR Bookshop 25 Letters 34 Crossword
april 2022 | Literary Review 3
