Stuart Ritchie’s ‘Science Fictions’ reveals a scholar committed not only to his own discipline but to the wider principles underlying all intellectual endeavour

A good field guide, but it won’t make you fall in love with the gull next door

Ministers have always needed people to carry their bags and to tell them what a wonderful job they are doing

Stefan Zweig’s 1939 novel ‘Beware of Pity’ now screams to have its message heeded

Ms Lees offers a new take on the template, but she is walking a well-trodden path

Emily Tamkin’s ‘The Influence of Soros’ is a lucid, subtle and fair-minded attempt to grapple with a tremendously complex legacy

Out of the Ether is an excellent primer on Ethereum, but the general reader might find the minutiae a bit much

Much of Wisdom of the Ancients makes one appreciate how we get sidetracked by so much trivial nonsense

As a pupil, Alexandra Wilson frequently encountered racially loaded assumptions. In court, clients assumed she was a defendant

Janis Tomlinson’s new biography of Francisco Goya is a well-informed, comprehensive biography that would make an excellent gift for any art lover