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Caroline Davison focuses on a life-changing episode in the English composer’s travels and erases misconceptions along the way
The BFI’s season marks 60 years of Jamaican independence with movies and personalities famous and forgotten
Claire Tomalin’s biography charts the priapic and political preoccupations of the young science fiction writer
The author sets off in the footsteps of his great-grandfather to Peru and finds connections to both his literary heroes and Hackney home
This chronicle of the melancholy, isolation and decadence of the Baltic states of Latvia and Estonia brings to life a forgotten land
From bone flutes to electronica, Mozart to Stormzy: Nicholas Kenyon and Michael Spitzer take two anthropological journeys into sound
Carol Reed’s brilliant interpretation of Graham Greene’s cold war thriller remains politically relevant
Silvana Paternostro’s biography is entertainingly made up of interviews with those who best knew Gabo
This debut novel zeroes in on Naples’ new breed of computer-savvy gangsters-in-training
‘Mars by 1980’ is a beguiling history of electronic music — from Stockhausen to Kraftwerk via ‘Dr Who’
An effort to uncover the story behind a secret London murder trial
A deluge engulfs Naples in this newly translated Italian classic
A portrait of the writer during his productive four years in the South Pacific delights from start to finish
Killers of the Flower Moon recreates a pivotal moment in the history of US law enforcement
A history of Catholicism in Britain offers a sprawling chronicle of heroism and holiness
A wide-ranging Caribbean travelogue paints a picture of a region ahead of its time
A collection of dispatches from countries in flux is alert to the differences between tourism and travel
A newly launched hot-air balloon operation offers the ideal way to explore the world’s driest desert
A lapsed bishop offers an arrestingly sceptical account of the development of world religions
A study of great writers facing death offers a strange sort of comfort to the living
A daughter remembers her lost father in a powerful memoir of Auschwitz-Birkenau
A lost Paris of boulevardiers, gangsters and absinthe-imbibing poets is brought vividly to life
A rich amalgam of social history and reportage that explores changing attitudes to autism
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