Books

Murders for February

Gripping books and the promise of another

Many lives of the first everywoman

Wife of Bath is a brand name all will recognise

The Bedfords: a marriage of minds

Keir Davidson draws on abundant family archives to paint extensive biographies of artistic and scientific patronage

Liar, crook and Hollywood great

For all Cimino’s flaws, there was still “the vision thing”

The new establishment

Who will subvert today’s anti-establishment?

Soon to be pulped non-fiction

Quentin Tarantino’s new book is a disappointment

Secret sex lives in Victorian England

Prepare to fall in like with three new books

Seldon’s way

Pioneering a path to redemption

“Death to the Bank of England!”

Do the origins of Mark Drakeford’s Wales experiment lie with the Green Shirts?

An anaconda in the chandelier?

Benedict Rogers’ new book maps the vast network of repression propped up by China’s regime