Glance even for just a moment at the nonfiction lists for the first half of 2018, and the trends all but leap from the shelf. Next year marks the centenary of the Representation of the People Act, which gave women (though only those who were householders and older than 30) the vote. Two excellent books explore the movement that fought so fearlessly to achieve this: Hearts and Minds by Jane Robinson (Doubleday, January) and Rise Up Women! Finally, in 2018 two writers will reinvestigate the Cambridge spies with the help of recently released papers. First up is Richard Davenport-Hines with Enemies Within: Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain (William Collins, January).

Source: The Guardian December 31, 2017 07:52 UTC