Guess who’s back? “He is a thief, and a glutton, a coward, and a boaster, always ready to cheat the weak, and prey upon the ...

Money to Burn (Penge på lommen, 2020) is the first in a projected seven-novel series by the Danish poet and novelist Asta ...

The Museum of Lost and Fragile Things is a fever dream of a book, gripping and trippy. Suzanne Joinson, a bestselling ...

Recently republished by Virago, with an illuminating foreword by Camilla Grudova, Caroline Blackwood’s The Fate of Mary Rose ...

According to many scholars in a variety of social sciences and economic disciplines, the world has, over the past two decades ...

Unlike almost any other conflict, the First World War has never loosened its grip on the scholarly or public imagination. More than a century after the ...

In the shadow of St Peter’s Basilica, across the piazza degli scalpellini, or “square of the stonecutters”, lies another, more ancient structure.

Suetonius’s biographies of the rulers of Rome, from Julius Caesar to the emperor Domitian, are rich in character and telling detail – as emerges with clarity from Tom Holland’s excellent new ...

On the urging of a cave diver she knew, Ange Mlinko read Friday (1967), the revisionist Robinson Crusoe tale by Michel ...

544pp. Hamish Hamilton. £25.

The Grimaldi is a convent-run boarding house in the stony heart of Rome. It is a chaste residence for unmarried women – university students, mostly – a place of strict curfews and cloistered yearning.

The failings of Nicholas II as a ruler are widely accepted by western historians, and even by those who praise his virtues as a husband and a father. In his new history of the end of Romanov rule, ...