The family doctor knows best
A sweeping history of the NHS and one GP’s inside account of a long career on the front line.
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The high plain style of Cormac McCarthy
The late American novelist wrote with a strange and streamlined grandeur, and sounded like nobody else.
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Cormac McCarthy’s existential Westerns
In his career-defining Border Trilogy, the late novelist summoned the ghosts of America’s bloody history.
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Too big to blame: the great Libor cover-up
Andy Verity’s Rigged reveals how a few City bankers became scapegoats for a national rates-rigging scandal.
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Losing the Wager
In his gripping new book, David Grann reveals the imperial rivalry and hubris that lay behind an 18th-century mutiny.
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From Ronnie O’Sullivan to a Ukrainian family memoir: new books reviewed in short
Also featuring Being Human by Lewis Dartnell and We All Go Into the Dark by Francisco Garcia.
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Nick Drake’s dark places
The songwriter is revered as a tortured genius – but Richard Morton Jack’s new biography shows that behind the romantic…
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Peter Turchin’s empty prophecies
The social scientist has made a career from predicting global instability. But in the new book End Times, his analysis…
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