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Is child-rearing political or deeply personal? Helen Charman’s new history reckons with the tension between mother and state.

By Megan Gibson

Craig Brown’s A Voyage Around the Queen shows how Elizabeth II reflected her subjects back at themselves.

By Margaret MacMillan

Kalwant Bhopal presents school as a terrible place to be an ethnic minority in her book Race and Education. The…

By Tomiwa Owolade

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By Michael Prodger, Zoë Huxford, Zuzanna Lachendro and Nicholas Harris

Richard J Evans’s group biography of the Third Reich’s enforcers provides a revelatory account of the Nazi mind.

By William Boyd

Two new books show that the female appetite remains a source of danger and shame.

By Erica Wagner

There Are Rivers in the Sky is the Turkish novelist at her ambitious and empathetic best.

By Nicola Sturgeon