Books

After their liberation, there was fame, gifts and trips. Soon many returned to the mines.

Book review: Barry Gough’s ’The Elusive Mr. Pond: The Solider, Fur Trader and Explorer Who Opened the Northwest’

Book review: William Alexander’s ’Flirting with French: How a Language Charmed Me, Seduced Me & Nearly Broke My Heart’

Book review: Mónica Maristain’s ’Bolano: A Biography in Conversations’

The Bodleian Library’s treasures reveal that mockery was a potent British wartime weapon

Book review: Martin Amis’s ’The Zone of Interest’

Book review: ’Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of history’

A review of Eula Biss’s ’On Immunity,’ which tackles the history of anti-vaccination movements

Book review: Chris Taylor’s ’How Star Wars Conquered the Universe: The Past, Present and Future of a Multibillion Dollar Franchise’

Book review: Hilary Mantel’s ’The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher and Other Stories’