Books

This meticulous account gives Frederick Chatterton a deserved and belated spotlight

There’s more to feminism than how many women are on the FTSE100 — Mary Ann Sieghart’s new book does a disservice to working-class women

The Unbroken Thread is an engaging and entertaining read — but it feels like a project that’s only just beginning

In this month’s fiction selection, John Self discovers novels that successfully use their style to enhance rather than simply describe the story

The winner of the Wolfson Prize for History significantly advances neither our knowledge of Toussaint Louverture nor Haiti

The drives behind the Victorian periodical press and penny literature

From midnight Parisian walks and femmes fatales to jazz and corruption, Jeremy Black rounds up the best murders

The first title in Yale University’s highly regarded “Jewish Lives” series to be devoted to a murderous scoundrel

The solemn, febrile and deeply bonkers ferment of interwar modernism

Barnier’s Secret Journal should interest British readers due to the insights on whether the UK could have negotiated a better deal