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The life of the Virago Press co-founder who was instrumental in celebrating female writers
After the failed plot against Hitler, families of the German resistance faced a cruel fate
The former Tory chairman reviews a memoir charting a well-meaning but mistake-ridden path to the EU referendum
The artist’s salty voice rings out in an indulgent and highly enjoyable biography
A wry chronicle of the fiendishly complicated and rackety love lives of the women of Horizon magazine fame
Brendan Simms’ provocative new biography says the Führer was more preoccupied by the west than the USSR
The bold vision of the J Lyons family created a uniquely British empire
An enjoyable biography of Neville Cardus, the man who brought poetry to the craft of cricket journalism
A magnificent biography of Charlemagne, known as ‘the father of Europe’
Genius, yes. Tortured, yes. But was Beethoven a political subversive?
A little girl’s disappearance is investigated by her own daughter decades later in this portrait of a forgotten England
An entertaining memoir recalls 20 heady years at the centre of the British music business
Enjoyable new insights into the life of former Economist editor Walter Bagehot
A new biography about the ‘monarch of the world’ is a work of profound scholarship
Two biographies chart the rise and fall of a band riven with excesses and jealousy
Brilliant biography reminds us of the poet’s innovation and cosmopolitanism
Chantal Thomas shares her mother’s swimming addiction in this slender memoir of family life
Thomas Gresham, the slippery banker to Tudor monarchs, is brought richly to life
Cate Haste explores the muse who bewitched and tormented her famous husbands
On-the-ground reporting offers rare insights into Kim and his country’s unique society
A new kind of literary biography relives the ‘year of poetic marvels’ that Wordsworth and Coleridge spent in Somerset
Day’s book melds nature writing with urban grit to examine our urge to take root
Silvana Paternostro’s biography is entertainingly made up of interviews with those who best knew Gabo
Francesca Segal’s moving account of being deprived of the customary markers of care
The novelist’s first work of non-fiction examines what it means to be a refugee
