Books

Is Cheltenham beyond parody?

A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead

Murders for October

Tales from the gothic to the macabre

Folly, fantasy and Britain’s defence crisis

Britain has spent scarce resources in support of the fantasy of “Global Britain”

The right-on, left-wing oppressors

A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right

“Nice” people need to read this book

How women have been hounded throughout the gender wars

The kindest of ghosts

A new history of childhood reading is a treasure

Foul play

David Peace’s new novel is about much more than football

Midlands marvels and mysteries

A fitting if flawed tribute to one of England’s more undersung counties

Digging the Holy Land’s past

Our modern controversies about Jerusalem have ancient and medieval roots

From the monstrous to the grotesque

Hitler’s cult of charismatic leadership is indistinguishable from the ideology of National Socialism