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thrills & spills Nicholas Barber

The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood ’s Kings of Carnage Nick de Semlyen Nat Segnit

Different Times: A History of British Comedy David Stubbs Simon Heffer

Vines in a Cold Climate: The People Behind the English Wine Revolution Henry Jeff reys china Philip Snow

The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China – A History of Conflict Lawrence James Adam Brookes

The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China James M Zimmerman Robert Bickers

Life and Afterlife in Ancient China Jessica Rawson ancient world Tim Whitmarsh

Homer and His Iliad Robin Lane Fox Bijan Omrani

Messalina: A Story of Empire, Slander and Adultery Honor Cargill-Martin Antony Spawforth

Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World ’s First Empire Eckart Frahm f o o t p r i n t s Dennis Duncan Georges Perec at the Café de la Mairie spirit of place Rupert Christiansen

Metropolitain: An Ode to the Paris Metro Andrew Martin Malachi O’Doherty

Belfast: The Story of a City and Its People Feargal Cochrane Nick Holdstock

High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia’s Haunted Hinterland Tom Parfitt general Kate Kirkpatrick

The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil and the Salvation of Philosophy Wolf ram Eilenberger Michael Eisen

Breaking Through Depression: New Treatments and Discoveries for Healing Philip Gold

Will Wiles

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World Henry Grabar Emma Park

The Battle for Thought: Freethinking in the 21st Century Simon McCarthy-Jones • Free Your Mind: The New World of Manipulation and How to Resist It Laura Dodsworth & Patrick Fagan Nigel Andrew

Squirrel Nation: Reds, Greys and the Meaning of Home Peter Coates fiction Paul Genders

Caret Adam Mars-Jones Nicholas Harris

Open Up Thomas Morris George Cochrane

The Vegan Andrew Lipstein Michael Delgado

Study for Obedience Sarah Bernstein Davina Langdale

Tom Lake Ann Patchett Rosemary Goring

The Covenant of Water Abraham Verghese Christopher Ross

Four Seasons in Japan Nick Bradley fiction in brief The Beasts of Paris Stef Penney • The Wolf Hunt Ayelet Gundar-Goshen • Cheri Jo Ann Beard crime Natasha Cooper silenced voices Lucy Popescu Merdan Yanardağ bookends Peter Davidson Summer in Weimar

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