Category: History books

The crisis whisperer: how Adam Tooze makes sense of our bewildering age

Whether it’s the financial crash, the climate emergency or the breakdown of the international order, historian Adam Tooze has become the go-to guide to the radical new world we’ve enteredIn late January 2025, 10 days...

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‘You don’t brag about wiping out 60‑70,000 people’: the men who dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

This summer will mark 80 years since the attacks stunned the world. Today, every one of the crew members who carried out the bombings is dead. Here, one of the last writers to interview them reopens his files‘It was a...

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Summer reading: the 50 hottest books to read now

From dazzling debuts to unmissable memoirs, prize-winning novels to page-turning histories … Plus our pick of paperbacks and children’s fictionLeading authors choose their perfect holiday readingThe 10 best...

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Fighting for Life by Isabel Hardman; Critical by Dr Julia Grace Patterson reviews – is the NHS really on its last legs?

The triumphs and the tribulations… former health secretary Alan Johnson on two very different books seeking to take the pulse of our national health service on its 75th anniversaryWhat must it have been like to be there...

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Dara McAnulty becomes youngest ever finalist for Baillie Gifford prize

Diary of a Young Naturalist, the 16-year-old’s debut, joins 12 other books in contention for prestigious £50,000 nonfiction awardThe teenager Dara McAnulty has become the youngest writer ever to be longlisted for the...

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