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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Lying, Misleading, & What is Said Ishani Maitra considers an exploration of the forms deception takes - and their moral significance 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
Re-imagining the 'Dark Continent' in Fin de Siecle Literature Joanna Lewis hails a challenging ‘must-read’ for historians of late-Victorian imperialism 17 January
Soldiers, Spies, and Statesmen: Egypt's Road to Revolt Democracy suffers when the Islamists, the military and the secret police collude, writes Mariz Tadros 17 January
Territory of dreadful delight Joanna Lewis hails a challenging ‘must-read’ for historians of late-Victorian imperialism 17 January
Trent: What Happened at the Council by John W. O’Malley Alec Ryrie salutes a committed and critical look at a key event in the history of Catholicism By Alec Ryrie 17 January
Philosophical element completes comprehensive overhaul School of Humanities bolsters Tsinghua’s ascent to global elite, Carolynne Wheeler hears in Beijing 10 January
Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False 3 January
Don't you kids know who I am? ‘Probably the most significant medieval historian’ rounds on absentee students. Paul Jump writes By Paul Jump 3 January
Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem At last, a book exploring the impact of literature on the non-academic reader, writes Chris Jones 20 December
The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die A.W. Purdue on the ramifications of the demise of Western civil society’s foundational structures 20 December
Seduced by Logic: Émilie Du Châtelet, Mary Somerville and the Newtonian Revolution Biancamaria Fontana admires the courage of two women who dared to enter scientific circles 20 December
Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece The story behind the writing of a literary tour de force is illuminating, finds Tessa Hadley 13 December
Was Hitler Ill? A Final Diagnosis No excuses, says Yvonne Sherratt: the Fuhrer’s enormities cannot be blamed on insanity 13 December
Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis, by Helen Bynum Richard J. Evans admires exhaustive coverage of an ancient killer that threatens a major comeback 13 December
There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra Willy Maley on a writer of commitment’s memoir of a postcolonial nation’s descent into conflict 29 November
The Last Walk: Reflections on Our Pets at the End of Their Lives Erika Cudworth considers the ethical dilemmas posed by the decline and death of a beloved ‘pet’ 22 November
Patriotism and Propaganda in First World War Britain: The National War Aims Committee and Civilian Morale 15 November
Bible Readers and Lay Writers in Early Modern England: Gender and Self-Definition in an Emergent Writing Culture 15 November
Sasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman This tale of friends, lovers and fighters for political change has epic sweep, says Robin Feuer Miller 8 November
Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine It’s not too early to tell who is to blame for the unnecessary death of millions, says Kerry Brown 1 November
Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease Alison Bashford applauds a magisterial study of scarily relevant bioeconomic history 1 November
The Invention of Heterosexual Culture The man-woman pairing displaced other well-established forms of bonding, finds Robert Mills 1 November
Devil's advocate Milton expert Stanley Fish refuses to demonise the administrator and warns against influencing the moral character of students, he tells Matthew Reisz 6 November
