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 Assassins And Secret Listeners by Alistair Moffat (Birlinn £20, 304pp) is available now from the Mail Bookshop By KATHRYN HUGHES Published: 04:30 EDT, 18 October 2026 | Updated: 12:24 EDT, 18 October 2026 <!--…

Master Of Lies by Piers Blofeld (Quercus £25, 384pp) is available now from the Mail BookshopBy KATHRYN HUGHES Published: 04:30 EDT, 24 May 2026 | Updated: 04:37 EDT, 24 May 2026 <!-- -->…

Master Of Lies by Piers Blofeld (Quercus £25, 384pp) is available now from the Mail BookshopBy KATHRYN HUGHES Published: 04:30 EDT, 24 May 2026 | Updated: 04:37 EDT, 24 May 2026 <!-- -->…

On a hot August day, a young woman weaves her way down narrow corridors. In her haste, she slips on the smooth floors and is caught ‘in the strength of a man’s arms’. He rights her and sends her on her way, calling ‘be careful, my child’…

 Renoir’s delectable 1881 portrait of two little French girls, known as Pink And Blue, hangs in the Museum of Art in Sao Paulo. It’s the painting most beloved by visitors and is described by Catherine Ostler in her profoundly moving new…

If walls could speak, Jane Rogoyska has been on hand to take down the dictation and pick up what she calls the ‘emotional residue’. For we are in Paris at the Hotel Lutetia.Built in 1910, it’s a grand establishment, full of chandeliers,…

To her grandchildren, Rosi Schul was a kind, proud, talented and sometimes forbidding German woman with immaculate hair who once, long ago, went on a ‘great adventure’. What she wasn’t was a kind, proud, talented and sometimes forbidding…

MUV: The STORY OF THE MITFORD GIRLS’ MOTHER by Rachel Trethewey (History Press £22.99, 272pp)Picture this scene in the lobby of the Grand Hotel in Nuremberg in September 1938. Lord and Lady Redesdale, parents of the Mitford girls, were…

A lost Second World War bomber shot down by the Nazis with a British airman aboard has been found after 82 years.Leslie Norman Row, from Gravesend, Kent, was flying a mission over the Mediterranean when his Baltimore Bomber was…

The remnants of a World War II warship that Nazis sunk off the coast of Brazil have been discovered more than 80 years later.The Brazilian vessel, named Vital de Oliveira, was attacked by a German submarine in 1944 and 100 of the 270 men…