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A knight of the realm who turned traitor, and was hanged
Roger Casement rejected the Empire, allied with Germany and, as Roland Philipps’s superb study Broken Archangel shows, paid dearly
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Do these young American essayists live up to the hype?
Becca Rothfeld and Lauren Oyler are both known as acute reviewers – but while the former’s work has bite, the latter needed editing
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Andrew O’Hagan’s state-of-the-nation novel makes its opinions too clear
Caledonian Road, a sprawling satire, skewers the complacent middle classes with relish, but its taste for nastiness is not to its benefit
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How ‘freaks’ took over pop culture – from Jim Morrison to the Manson Family
Auteurs frontman Luke Haines’s new book Freaks Out! offers a waspish, eccentric guide to rock ’n’ roll misfits from the 1950s to today
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A mighty history: four centuries of French family tiffs
Justine Firnhaber-Baker’s House of Lilies is a chronicle of one of medieval Europe’s most powerful dynasties, the back-stabbing Capetians
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The arrests putting Narendra Modi’s ‘fascist’ India on trial
As Alpa Shah’s The Incarcerations shows, the so-called ‘BK case’ exemplifies India’s degraded public life under the current prime minister
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Meet the ordinary people whose lives have been ruined by AI
From teenagers told they’re destined to commit crime to gig workers who mysteriously lose their jobs, Code Dependent is a frightening read
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How smartphones poisoned our children’s brains – and how to fight back
Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation is a terrifying assessment of the digital carnage, and a clarion-call to parents everywhere
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The true story of a literary crime that went undetected for decades
Joseph Hone’s The Book Forger sheds light on a devilish dealer who made a fortune through fake first editions during the late 19th century
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Charles Spencer’s headmaster was a paedophilic villain – I remember him
A Very Private School relates the 9th Earl Spencer’s time at Maidwell Hall, the horrors of life there, and the dark figure of Mr Porch
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You’ve never thought about food – or London – as these writers have
London Feeds Itself, an essay anthology edited by food writer Jonathan Nunn, is a giddying, fascinating survey of the capital’s cuisine
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The ‘Angelina Jolie of Kurdistan’, and other vigilante warriors
Elizabeth Flock’s The Furies relates how three women from different continents took the law into their own hands, with lethal results
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Why penguins might live on Venus – and other surprising ideas about space
Chris Lintott’s Our Accidental Universe gives an anecdotal tour of the universe through eccentric observations and tantalising mysteries
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Dinosaurs ‘drowned in Noah’s Flood’ – so said the Victorian Church
Impossible Monsters captivatingly outlines how the unearthing of strange bones toppled traditional understanding of the origins of the world
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Think you know the Book of Genesis? This will make you think again
American novelist Marilynne Robinson's new book Reading Genesis offers a brilliantly fresh perspective on the first book of the Bible
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Who should control the Moon? Technocrats, says AC Grayling
AC Grayling’s new book forecasts our future relationship with Earth’s satellite – though he tells us to ‘grow up’ first
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How Britain battled food waste – with the help of hungry pigs
In her enthusiastic history Leftovers, Eleanor Barnett explains how we got to the point where we waste 10m tonnes of food per year
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The great writer who has spent 50 years warning us that love can kill
Helen Garner is one of the greatest living writers Down Under. At last her brooding, sensual, smartly-written books have reached the UK
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Jodie Comer, look away – this novel is an insult to your talent
Suzie Miller has turned her theatrical hit Prima Facie into a novel. Suddenly, the original’s flaws are exposed, and a whole heap added
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Cocaine, Vegas, breakdowns – believe me, these Wall Street stories are true
As a former trader can testify, there’s substance to the grim excesses portrayed in two new memoirs of the finance industry
