One of Britain’s foremost conductors lifts the lid on what they actually do and how you become one.īroadcast last year on his podcast, Ellis’s first novel in 13 years melds autobiography and fiction to focus on a group of privileged LA students at risk from a serial killer.Īn impressive debut of unconventional lives in Victorian England, inspired by Havelock Ellis and John Addington Symonds’s work on gay sexuality.

In Good Hands: The Making of a Modern Conductor by Alice Farnham, Faber

Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity and Democracy by Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud, MacmillanĪn inside account of the investigation that exposed the digital surveillance system capable of infecting billions of mobile phones.įifty years after the Cultural Revolution, the Guardian’s former China correspondent shows how it continues to reverberate through the lives of ordinary people. It also covers his short-lived medical career and time at the BBC. I’m Black So You Don’t Have to Be by Colin Grant, CapeĪ memoir told through the stories of Grant’s mother, sister, uncle and others. In this posthumous work, the anthropologist and Occupy movement leader makes the case that Enlightenment values were best embodied by a ramshackle utopia in late 17th-century Madagascar. Pirate Enlightenment by David Graeber, Allen Lane The prince tells all in a memoir that was delayed following the death of his grandmother, the Queen, in September 2022.Ī devastating reflection on 200 years of American gun culture from the acclaimed writer and film-maker. Bret Easton Ellis is back with his first novel in 13 years.

Angry Ghosts by F. Allen Farnham