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Our pick of the latest military history books

The shared struggles of Hieronymous Bosch, Max Beckmann and William Kentridge

Best books… Geoff Dyer The award-winning author of ...

Sceptred Isle: A New History of the Fourteenth ...

What questions should today’s writers and artists be asking? Responses from authors at the Hay Festival and the TLS

Take a good dollop of Victorian innovation, add a fistful of classics, season it liberally with creative genius and you’ll cook up the very British art of literary illustration. Carla Passino charts its history and discovers that it still thrives