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mind & body 27 Mick Brown

How to Change Your Mind Michael Pollan 29 Anthony Daniels

Too Many Pills: How Too Much Medicine is Endangering Our Health and What We Can Do About It James Le Fanu 30 Wendy Moore

With the End in Mind: Dying, Death & Wisdom in an Age of Denial Kathryn Mannix

history 31 Jonathan Steinberg

Pogrom: Kishinev & the Tilt of History Steven J Zipperstein 32 John Keay

Imperial Twilight: The Opium War & The End of China’s Last Golden Age Stephen R Platt 34 Blair Worden

In Pursuit of Civility: Manners & Civilization in Early Modern England Keith Thomas 36 Christopher Tyerman

The Siege of Acre, 1189–1191 John D Hosler 37 Hugh Kennedy

Crusade and Jihad William R Polk 38 Neil Gregor

Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th Century Konrad Jarausch

literary lives 40 Christopher Hart

The World in Thirty-Eight Chapters or Dr Johnson’s Guide to Life Henry Hitchings 41 Guy Stevenson

On Henry Miller: or, How to Be an Anarchist John Burnside 42 Paul Bailey

The Hue and Cry At Our House Benjamin Taylor • Returning to Reims Didier Eribon • The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading Edmund White

religion 44 Salley Vickers

The New Testament David Bentley Hart

general 45 D D Guttenplan

Reporter: A Memoir Seymour M Hersh 47 Mark Maslin

The Wizard and the Prophet Charles C Mann 48 Will Wiles

Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World Simon Winchester 50 James Bloodworth

Bullshit Jobs: A Theory David Graeber 51 Patrick Scrivenor

Yeti: An Abominable History Graham Hoyland

birds 52 Philip Womack

Birds in the Ancient World: Winged Words Jeremy Mynott 53 Nigel Andrew

Far From Land: The Mysterious Lives of Seabirds Michael Brooke

silenced voices 55 Lucy Popescu on Daphne Caruana Galizia

fiction 56 Ben Masters Warlight Michael Ondaatje 57 Sarah Crown The Mars Room Rachel Kushner 58 Adrian Turpin The Shepherd’s Hut Tim Winton 59 Frank Lawton T Singer Dag Solstad 60 Joanna Kavenna Caroline’s Bikini Kirsty Gunn 61 Ian Critchley Rock and Roll is Life D J Taylor 62 Kevin Power Good Trouble Joseph O’Neill 63 Jonathan Barnes The Outsider Stephen King 64 Daniya Baiguzhayeva Florida Lauren Groff 64 Jude Cook A Weekend in New York Benjamin Markovits 65 Paloma van Tol Our Homesick Songs Emma Hooper

crime 66 Jessica Mann

bookends 72 Adam Douglas

16 Literary Review Bookshop 54 Letters 67 Crossword

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