Books

From seedy sex clubs to the streets of Paris: Jeremy Black selects British Library Crime Classics to enjoy over the May Bank Holiday

Beyond the embellishments of Alan Duncan’s private diaries lies a body of work making serious points about the role of parliament

Alexander Adams delves into two new books that examine the art theft of occupying armies in two different ages

Without school libraries, boys and girls will grow up in households where the idea of owning books, or even borrowing, seems an increasingly fantastical one

A new history of movie directors is full of insight, felicitous phrases and subtle put-downs

A beautiful and unusual book can lift the spirits of even the most jaded reviewer

Steve Morris argues that this new book about Pontius Pilate helps us understand the limits of state and law

Placing the poems of Pre-Raphaelite muse Elizabeth Siddal in context

James Stevens Curl reveals how this new release provides amazing insight into the household of a well-heeled, cultured European in late eighteenth-century India

Independent bookstores are often no more ethical than the big chains