Books
A Roman Tragedy
Lustrum by Robert Harris
Of Human Frailty
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham by Selina Hastings
Ripping Yarns
The Storm of War by Andrew Roberts
In Love with His Public
Charles Dickens: A Life Defined by Writing by Michael Slater
Henry the First
Kissinger’s Year: 1973 by Alistair Horne
Bad Luck with the Weather
John Piper, Myfanwy Piper, Lives in Art by Frances Spalding
Present Imperfect
A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks
The Promised Land?
Balfour & Weizmann: The Zionist, the Zealot and the Declaration which Changed the World by Geoffrey Lewis
‘A Senseless, Squalid War’: Voices from Palestine 1945-1948 by Norman Rose
One State, Two States: Resolving the Israel/Palestine Conflict by Benny Morris
Not Tonight, Pauline
Venus of Empire: The Life of Pauline Bonaparte by Flora Fraser
The Friend who Failed
Rosenfeld’s Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing by Steven J. Zipperstein
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts