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- 6 July 2022 (450 words)
- Amsterdam: A Brief Life of the City (Geert Mak)
- from polders to provocations
- 27 June 2022 (405)
- How Dead Languages Work (Coulter H. George)
- a linguistic, historical + literary potpourri covering six languages
- 25 May 2022 (714)
- The Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs (Camilla Townsend)
- using indigenous Nahuatl sources
- 26 April 2022 (280)
- The Road to Middle-Earth (Tom Shippey)
J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century (Tom Shippey)
- 5 April 2022 (365)
- *Atlas of the Invisible (James Cheshire, Oliver Uberti)
Maps and Graphics That Will Change How You See the World
- 3 March 2022 (234)
- The Travelling Cat Chronicles (Hiro Arikawa)
- a road-trip around Japan with a cat
- 8 February 2022 (717)
- Fire and Ice (Natalie Starkey)
The Volcanoes of the Solar System
- 26 January 2022 (205)
- Autumn Rounds (Jacques Poulin)
- an exceptionally gentle novel, a quiet romance
- 3 January 2022 (299)
- Tomb of Sand (Geetanjali Shree)
- from family comedy to the politics of partition
- 28 December 2021 (82)
- Fifty Sounds (Polly Barton)
- 17 December 2021 (309)
- The Pursuit of Italy (David Gilmour)
A History of a Land, Its Regions and Their Peoples
- 15 November 2021 (268)
- *Manaschi (Hamid Ismailov)
- a Kyrgyz story, modern and traditional
- 18 October 2021 (401)
- Britain Begins (Barry Cunliffe)
- from the Ice Age to the Norman Conquest
- 3 September 2021 (318)
- **Lectures on the Philosophy of Mathematics (Joel David Hamkins)
- from numbers and rigor to incompleteness and set theory
- 2 September 2021 (157)
- The English Civil Wars 1640-1660 (Blair Worden)
- a straightforward but insightful account
- 7 August 2021 (351)
- *Combinatorics and Graph Theory (Harris, Hirst, Mossinghoff)
- from the elementary to the infinite
- 31 July 2021 (293)
- Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 (Cho Nam-Joo)
- a woman's life in modern South Korea
- 14 July 2021 (647)
- The Miracle Pill (Peter Walker)
Why a sedentary world is getting it all wrong
- 23 June 2021 (211)
- Everything Like Before (Kjell Askildsen)
- stories of estrangement and misunderstanding
- 6 June 2021 (265)
- *Tokyo Ueno Station (Yu Miri)
- down and out in Tokyo and Fukushima
- 18 May 2021 (659)
- *Jellyfish: A Natural History (Lisa-Ann Gershwin)
- a fascinating survey with stunning photos
- 27 April 2021 (539)
- Viruses, Plagues, and History (Michael B. A. Oldstone)
Past, Present, and Future
Viruses: A Very Short Introduction (Dorothy H. Crawford)
- 15 April 2021 (540)
- Across the Bridge (Henry Gee)
Understanding the Origin of the Vertebrates
- 29 March 2021 (547)
- Turning Points (Mark A. Noll)
Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity
- 24 March 2021 (576)
- Salt Water (Josep Pla)
- stories of the north Catalan coast
- 1 March 2021 (796)
- Mathematics in Ancient Egypt (Annette Imhausen)
A Contextual History
- 4 February 2021 (988)
- **Army Ants (Daniel J.C. Kronauer)
Nature's Ultimate Social Hunters
- 2 February 2021 (607)
- Lying For Money (Dan Davies)
How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of Our World
- 11 January 2021 (218)
- *The Writer's Map (Huw Lewis-Jones)
An Atlas of Imaginary Lands
- 4 January 2021 (441)
- *Trees: Their Natural History (Peter A. Thomas)
- the challenges of being a tree
- 4 January 2021 (128)
- *Difficult Light (Tomás González)
- age and memory; pain, suffering, love and joy
- 7 December 2020 (228)
- Beyond Global Warming (Syukuro Manabe, Anthony J. Broccoli)
How Numerical Models Revealed the Secrets of Climate Change
- 30 November 2020 (301)
- *Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture (Apostolos Doxiadis)
- a novel of obsession and mathematics
- 25 November 2020 (598)
- Transport Matters (Iain Docherty, Jon Shaw)
- seventeen essays on a range of UK issues
- 19 November 2020 (581)
- State and Religion in China (Anthony C. Yu)
Historical and Textual Perspectives
- 11 November 2020 (250)
- The Treasure of the Spanish Civil War (Serge Pey)
- powerful stories of childhood and exile
- 13 October 2020 (499)
- Elements of Mathematics: From Euclid to Gödel (John Stillwell)
- "elementary" and its boundary with "advanced"
- 2 October 2020 (292)
- *Iran: A Modern History (Abbas Amanat)
- from the Safavids to the Islamic Revolution
- 25 September 2020 (672)
- Building the Cycling City (Melissa Bruntlett, Chris Bruntlett)
The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality
- 12 September 2020 (537)
- End of the Megafauna (Ross D. E. MacPhee)
The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals
- 9 September 2020 (789)
- Vincent's Starry Night and Other Stories (Michael Bird)
A Children's History of Art
A Journey Through Art (Aaron Rosen)
A Global History
- 8 September 2020 (1091)
- Mastery in Primary Mathematics (Tom Garry)
- a mastery approach to teaching mathematics teaching
Mastery Mathematics for Primary Teachers (Robert Newell)
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