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26 Piers Brendon
Ten Cities that Made an Empire Tristram Hunt 28 Frank McLynn
The Mongol Empire: Genghis Khan, His Heirs and the Founding of Modern China John Man t i a nanmen 29 Jasper Becker
The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited Louisa Lim 31 Lucy Popescu
Silenced Voices mone y mat t e r s 32 Alan Ryan
Capital in the Twenty-First Century Thomas Piketty 34 Martin Vander Weyer
Flash Boys: Cracking the Money Code Michael Lewis 35 Felix Martin
The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Making and Breaking of Nations Jacob Soll b r a z i l 36 David Gelber
Brazil: The Troubled Rise of a Global Power Michael Reid 37 Chris Taylor
¡Golazo! A History of Latin American Football Andreas Campomar • Futebol Nation: A Footballing History of Brazil David Goldblatt l i t e r a r y l i v e s 39 Evelyn Juers
The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World George Prochnik 40 Jay Parini
Stephen Crane: A Life of Fire Paul Sorrentino g e n e r a l 42 Thomas Dixon
The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers Joanna Bourke 43 Heather Brooke
The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power & Culture in the Digital Age Astra Taylor
45 Michael Evans
The Snowden Operation: Inside the West’s Greatest Intelligence Disaster Edward Lucas • The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World ’s Most Wanted Man Luke Harding • No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the Surveillance State Glenn Greenwald 46 Patrick Hennessey
Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H W Bush Geoff Dyer 47 Damian Le Bas
I Met Lucky People: The Story of the Romani Gypsies Yaron Matras • No Place to Call Home: Inside the Real Lives of Gypsies & Travellers Katherine Quarmby 48 Jonathan Mirsky
1965: The Year Modern Britain Was Born Christopher Bray 49 Hephzibah Anderson
A Curious Career Lynn Barber 50 Paul Lay
How We Invented Freedom & Why It Matters Daniel Hannan f i c t i on 51 Michelle de Kretser
Agua Viva Clarice Lispector • Hour of the Star Clarice Lispector 52 Joanna Kavenna
In Paradise Peter Matthiessen 53 Jonathan Lee
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour Joshua Ferris 54 Keith Miller
In the Approaches Nicola Barker 55 Carole Angier
The Ten Thousand Things John Spurling 56 Pamela Norris
Hidden Knowledge Bernardine Bishop 58 Jonathan Barnes on seven debuts 59 Lucian Robinson
Hotel Andromeda Gabriel Josipovici 60 Simon Baker
The Black Snow Paul Lynch 60 Tom Fleming
Family Life Akhil Sharma 61 Kate Saunders
The Broken King Philip Womack
11 Crossword 58 LR Bookshop Jessica Mann is away this month. Crime returns in July.
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