Books

A Very Expensive Poison Luke Harding Luke Harding’s investigation of the polonium poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in London and the trail leading back to the Kremlin. 1 recommender A Virtuous Woman Kaye Gibbons Kaye Gibbons tells the story of an unlikely Southern marriage in alternating voices, looking back after the wife's death. 1 recommender A Vision of Fire Gillian Anderson, Jeff Rovin A child psychologist investigates young people around the world struck by the same strange visions, in book one of the EarthEnd Saga. A Visit from the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan Thirteen linked stories about a record executive, his assistant and the people around them, moving from the 1970s into the future. 1 recommender The Vagabond’s Way Rolf Potts A year of daily fragments on wanderlust and attention, built to be read one page at a time. 1 recommender The Vagina Monologues Eve Ensler The play built from interviews with hundreds of women that became a global movement against gender violence. 1 recommender The Varieties of Religious Experience William James James studies religion by setting doctrine aside and examining what conversion, mysticism and despair actually feel like. 2 recommenders The Viceroys Federico De Roberto Federico De Roberto's 1894 novel of a noble Sicilian family in the years of Italian unification, in Archibald Colquhoun's translation, published by Verso in 2016. 1 recommender The Vietnam War: A Military History Geoffrey Wawro A military historian takes the war as a campaign to analyse rather than a moral argument to settle: firepower, attrition, and why the operations could not deliver. 1 recommender The Violin Dacia Maraini A novel by Dacia Maraini, published in English by Arcadia Books in a 208-page paperback in April 2007. The Virgin Way Richard Branson Branson's contrarian leadership creed: listen more than you command, put staff before customers, and treat fun and kindness as competitive advantages. The Virtues of Dhul Hijjah Omar Suleiman On the merits of the first ten days of the Islamic month of Dhul Hijjah. The Vision Kahlil Gibran The parables Gibran wrote before The Prophet, working out what he believed human beings had forgotten about their own nature. 1 recommender The Vortex José Eustasio Rivera José Eustasio Rivera's 1924 novel of two lovers who flee Bogotá for the plains and the Amazon rainforest, in Charco Press's 2024 edition. 1 recommender V13 Emmanuel Carrère Ten months in court with the survivors and the accused of the Bataclan attacks. 1 recommender Valentine Elizabeth Wetmore A girl walks to a farmhouse at dawn, and the women of an oil-boom town must decide what to say. 1 recommender Vanderbilt Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe Cooper tells his own family's story: how the Vanderbilts built the greatest fortune in America and then, generation by generation, spent it all away. Viacheslav Ivanov: A Symbolist Life Michael Wachtel The forgotten poet at the centre of Russia's Silver Age, and the circle that gathered in his tower. 1 recommender Vichy France Robert Paxton 1 recommender Victoires et déboires Paul Bairoch A Belgian economic historian's panoramic history of the world economy since Columbus, in French. 1 recommender Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World Richard Cockett Freud, Popper, Hayek, Wittgenstein and Mahler came out of one city in about one generation. 1 recommender Villa and Zapata: A History of the Mexican Revolution Frank McLynn Two peasant armies, two very different revolutionaries, and the decade of chaos that made modern Mexico. 1 recommender Vinegar Hill A. Manette Ansay A. Manette Ansay's novel traps a 1970s wife and mother in her in-laws' cold, oppressive Wisconsin house. 1 recommender