The Pike: Gabriele d’Annunzio: Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett Richard Bosworth on a ‘celebrity’ role model for Mussolini’s Fascism 28 February
Hikikomori: Adolescence without End by Tamaki Saito Atsushi Senju discusses the strange case of Japanese ‘social withdrawal’ 28 February
Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking by E. Gabriella Coleman John Gilbey on how the geeks inherited cyberspace 28 February
Tennyson: To Strive, To Seek, To Find by John Batchelor Gary Day hails a biography of an eminent Victorian 21 February
An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo by Richard Davenport-Hines Stephen Halliday finds no heroes, only villains and victims, in a sordid tale 21 February
Vinyl: A History of the Analogue Record by Richard Osborne The medium and the music it made possible inspire a groovy kind of love in Les Gofton 21 February
Bang! A History of Britain in the 1980s by Graham Stewart Maud Anne Bracke considers an analysis of a revolutionary decade fails to offer a new perspective 21 February
The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity by Robert Louis Wilken Robert A. Segal on a comprehensive study of the growth of the world’s biggest religion 21 February
Karen McAulay, Jules Pretty, Peter J. Smith, Sharon Wheeler and Sue White... …on The House on an Irish Hillside, One Billion Hungry, Our Man in Havana, Return to the Stones and Water: All That Matters 21 February
The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths by John Gray Shahidha Bari on Straw Dogs’ author’s new tricks 21 February
Hitler’s Philosophers, by Yvonne Sherratt An effort to blame German thinkers for Nazism revives a discredited tradition, says Richard J. Evans 21 February
Antarctica: A Biography by David Day Chris Turney reviews a history of attempts by Antarctic explorers to conquer the southern continent 21 February
Passion and Paranoia by Charlotte Bloch Oversensitivity is bad news for the debate, argues Joanna Williams 21 February
Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks by Jenny White Clémence Scalbert-Yucel on a worthy addition to the study of a state in flux 21 February
George McKay, Peter Mills, Sara Read, Peter J. Smith and Bruce Scharlau... …on Eurojazzland, Twenty-One Locks, The Mystery of Mercy Close, The Great Gatsby and The Unofficial LEGO Builder’s Guide 14 February
Six Moments of Crisis: Inside British Foreign Policy by Gill Bennett Vernon Bogdanor on Cabinet decision-making 14 February
The Last Refuge: Yemen, Al-Qaeda and the Battle For Arabia by Gregory D. Johnsen Christina Hellmich on Al-Qaeda’s Arabian battles 14 February
We Modern People by Anindita Banerjee Yvonne Howell on modernity and early Russian science fiction 14 February
On Glasgow and Edinburgh by Robert Crawford Willy Maley identifies an old-fashioned charm in the telling of a tale of two rival, divided cities 14 February
Naked Statistics by Charles Wheelan Fear of too much information has taken a bludgeoning but survives, discovers Andy Field 7 February
Olivia Manning: A Woman At War by Deirdre David There is much to admire in this biography of the Fortunes of War author, finds Sandeep Parmar 7 February
Eating the Enlightenment by E.C Spary The evolution of dietary habits during the Enlightenment leaves Biancamaria Fontana hungry for more 7 February
Heart of Darkness by Jeremiah P. Ostriker and Simon Mitton Virginia Trimble on the hidden forces in the Cosmos 7 February
Bridges across an Impossible Divide by Marc Gopin John Brewer reviews a book that focuses on the spiritual motivations of peacemakers in the Middle East 7 February
Henri Poincaré: A Scientific Biography by Jeremy Gray Madeline Muntersbjorn reviews a guide to the oeuvres of a mathematical genius 7 February
Unfree Masters: Recording Artists and the Politics of Work by Matt Stahl Hillegonda Rietveld reviews a study of recording artists as cultural workers 7 February
Engineers of Victory by Paul Kennedy Graham Farmelo applauds a tribute to the technological experts who helped the Allies win the Second World War 7 February
Bleakonomics by Rob Larson Stewart Lansley on a sobering tale of plutonomy and the ‘failed science’ of economics 31 January
In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Willy Maley reviews an acclaimed Kenyan writer’s memoirs 31 January
Under the Volcano: Revolution in a Sicilian Town by Lucy Riall Richard Bosworth on the Risorgimento’s local legacy 31 January
Imagining the University by Ronald Barnett Simon Blackburn on higher education via a postmodern lens 31 January
Loving Faster than Light: Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe by Katy Price Vike Martina Plock on literary echoes of relativity’s shockwaves 31 January
Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life by André Dombrowski Alex Danchev finds new Modernist shades in this portrait of painter 31 January
Hard to Get: 20-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom by Leslie C. Bell Hera Cook on a study of young Californian women’s thoughts on gender and sexuality 31 January
The Poet’s Mind: The Psychology of Victorian Poetry 1830-1870 by Gregory Tate Britta Martens on a lucid look at 19th-century poets’ engagement with science of the mind 31 January
The Visioneers by W. Patrick McCray Jon Turney on future-facing researchers Gerard O’Neill and Eric Drexler 31 January
Family Secrets: Living with Shame from the Victorians to the Present Day by Deborah Cohen June Purvis on an absorbing study of social change 31 January
The Leaderless Economy Two economists aim to put the crisis to rights with the help of Iceland’s ash cloud, finds Howard Davies 24 January
Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death Memory struggles with history in an annal of life in Auschwitz and afterwards, finds Robert Eaglestone 24 January
Lying, Misleading, & What is Said Ishani Maitra considers an exploration of the forms deception takes - and their moral significance 24 January
