Hitler’s yes-men: What really motivated the Führer’s inner circle
In Hitler’s People, Richard J Evans explores how the Führer’s closest supporters made helped his regime accomplish so much misery
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In Hitler’s People, Richard J Evans explores how the Führer’s closest supporters made helped his regime accomplish so much misery
Eva Baltasar’s scintillating novel Mammoth, in which a woman rejects society for simple life and sensual joy, has intelligence and force
Vanessa Beaumont’s debut novel, The Other Side of Paradise, is a tale of courtship poisoned by obsession with money and status
Murder in the Gulag, a biography by John Sweeney, charts the Russian dissident’s life in admirable detail, albeit in overly chummy tones
Decades later, the first Allied soldier to set foot in the camp shared his account with Mark Hodkinson, author of Opening the Gates of Hell
Adèle Rosenfeld’s tale of a young woman losing her hearing, Jellyfish Have No Ears, immerses us in a strange, gorgeous world
In her new book Travellers in the Golden Realm, Lubaaba Al-Azami explores 16th- and 17th-century travellers’ efforts to flatter the Mughals
Watts and Whiskerton, a smart new novel by illustrator Meg McLaren, follows a dog with a nose for crime and his feline companion
Gold Rush, journalist Olivia Petter’s debut novel, tackles fame and sexual consent, but its admirable aims are let down by its prose
The debut novel by the late Victor Heringer, at last appearing in English, is a witty, restless tale, albeit one rough around the edges
Plunder?, Justin M Jacobs’s provocative new study of artefacts in the West, casts aside simple slogans and reveals a more complex history
The Newsmongers, a history of tabloid journalism by Terry Kirby, features plenty of strange figures, but some equally strange arguments too
From a drunken Hemingway to reprisals against ‘collaboratrices horizontales’, Patrick Bishop offers a gripping account of de Gaulle’s return
In Sarah Merrett’s thrilling debut, The Others, set in 1900, a young boy loses his astronomer grandmother – and finds a wounded alien
Released in a fine new translation, Charles Ferdinand Ramuz’s novel Great Fear on the Mountain is an eerie piece of high-altitude Gothicism
Murder in Harrogate, a crime-writing anthology featuring MW Craven, Janice Hallett and Abir Mukherjee, is witty, sharp and extremely local
Kate Zambreno’s books both detail her life and muse on her literary forebears, but this memoir of Covid-era parenting excels at neither
In Strange Relations, Ralf Webb re-evaluates four great writers: Tennessee Williams, Carson McCullers, John Cheever and James Baldwin
Eley Williams is one of Britain’s most feted young novelists, but the stories in Moderate to Poor, Occasionally Good can verge on the twee
In Coming of Age, Lucy Foulkes explains why teenagers should be allowed to take risks – and shouldn’t be overprotected