Book Review

We need heavyweights to separate good from bad

The Genetic Lottery is not the only book published this summer to tackle controversial topics in biology

Tirthankar Roy dismisses both nationalist tropes about evil colonialists and imperial assumptions of benevolent liberal intervention

Little of the Hungarian aristocrats’ world remains, except a few crumbling buildings — and Count Bánffy’s stories

These two books show that it has always been the preserve of the unscrupulous to peddle their wares to the gullible and salacious

Many find theology dusty, but McGrath makes a pitch for it as the centre of our world

The promise of John-Paul Stonard’s Creation is poisoned by a revisionist agenda

If you want your views of the wrongness of Brexit confirmed, this dull book will do so

This is an enthusiastic and fluent guide to the world of beer, with an understanding that what makes it such a joy is to do with how it makes us feel

Rodgers and Cavendish gamely and colourfully attempt both to tell the stories and capture Granada’s long-standing mysterious appeal