Diane Purkiss: Fur from Reasonable - Yap!: A Short History of Small Dogs by Stephanie Howard-Smith

Josh Glancy: Give Me the Judge - American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump by Kai Bird with Susan Goldmark

Peter Marshall: Catchpole to the King - King’s Secretary: William Paget and the Last Years of the Reign of Henry VIII by Andrew Johnston

Dmitri Levitin: Peak Dictation - In the Scholar’s Workshop: Hidden Histories of Collaboration and Authorship by Ann Blair

Joseph Hone: Balancing the Books - The Bookshop: A History of Bookselling from the Dawn of Print to the 21st Century by Andrew Pettegree

Anthony Gottlieb: Zombie iPocalypse - The New Dark Ages: The End of Reading and the Dawn of the Post-Literate Society by James Marriott

Wendy Holden: Preposterously Pink - The Great Dictator: A Life of Barbara Cartland by Matthew Sweet

Jonathan Keates: Fixer from Florence - La Contessa by Benedetta Craveri (Translated from Italian by Alex Andriesse)

Llewelyn Morgan: Letters from a Cataclysm - Orator: The Life of Cicero and the End of the Roman Republic by Catharine Edwards

Seamus Perry: A Bulbous Moon - The Poems of Sylvia Plath by Amanda Golden & Karen V Kukil (eds)

Lorraine Daston: Web of Intrigue - Arachnomania: Spiders and the Cultural Work They Do for Us by Maria Tatar

Rana Mitter: Precedents of China - Why Ancient Chinese Political Thought Matters: Four Dialogues on China’s Past, Present, and Future by Daniel A Bell

Jonathan Boff: People’s War - Collapse: A Global History of the Second World War, 1931–1941 by Jonathan Fennell

Book reviews by David Anderson

Michael Burleigh: Six of the Best - The Nord Stream Conspiracy: The Inside Story of the Explosions that Shook the World by Bojan Pancevski

Jonathan Keates: Taller with the Charm On - The People’s Emperor: The Unlikely Rise and Spectacular Fall of Napoleon III by Edward Shawcross

Christopher Webb: Sea, Sand & Sorrow - Strangers on the Shore by Michael Smith

William Whyte: Pass the Cherries - Twilight of the Dons: British Intellectuals from World War II to Thatcherism by Colin Kidd

Peter Moore: Out of the Armchair - The Traveller: The Revolutionary Life of George Forster and his Search for Humanity by Andrea Wulf

William Whyte: Pass the Cherries - Twilight of the Dons: British Intellectuals from World War II to Thatcherism by Colin Kidd

Joe Moshenska: A Man of Substance - Spinoza, Atheist by Steven Nadler

John Mullan: Out on the Wily, Windy Moors - This Dark Night: The Life of Emily Brontë by Deborah Lutz

Ian Fraser: Bottling It - Plastic Inc.: Big Oil, Big Money and the Plan to Trash our Future by Beth Gardiner

John Guy: Concerning Strangers - This Little World: A New History of Tudor and Stuart England by Nandini Das

Simon Nixon: Hush Money - The Asset Class: How Private Equity Turned Capitalism Against Itself by Hettie O'Brien

Piers Brendon: Top Hat, Rubber Stamp - Churchill and the Crown by Ted Powell

In the Current Issue: Ritchie Robertson on Weimar * Charles Darwent on Louise Bourgeois * John Guy on the Tudors * Kirsten Tambling on dogs in art * Piers Brendon on Churchill and the crown * Saul…

Anthony Pagden: Room for Improvement - The West: The History of an Idea by Georgios Varouxakis

Maren Meinhardt: While the Music Lasts - Vocal Break: On Women, Music and Power by Lauren Elkin

Kirsten Tambling: Artist’s Best Friend - The Dog’s Gaze: A Visual History by Thomas W Laqueur

Mythili Rao: Brushes with Fame - Minor Black Figures by Brandon Taylor

In the Current Issue: Ritchie Robertson on Weimar * Charles Darwent on Louise Bourgeois * John Guy on the Tudors * Kirsten Tambling on dogs in art * Piers Brendon on Churchill and the crown * Saul…

Adam Kucharski: On Second Thoughts - Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works by Helen Pearson

Howard Davies: Who Ate All the Pie? - Challenging Inequalities: How We Got Stuck and Where We Go Next by Paul Johnson

Colin MacCabe: Parnell’s Shadow - James Joyce: A Political Life by Frank Callanan

Wendy Holden: Sovereign Style - Fashioning the Crown: A Story of Power, Conflict and Couture by Justine Picardie; Dressing the Queen: Two Hundred Years of Makers and Monarchy by Kate Strasdin