
1. Necropolis:Price: £7.99
London and Its Dead By Catharine Arnold From burial mounds to charnel houses, the capital's first crematoriumto the black crepe and floral tributes of East End memorials, Catharine Arnold's account of death in London is by turns fascinating, stomachchurning and poignant. She is especially good on the endlessly over-the-top Victorian funeral business.
2. Warsaw 1920:Price: £14.99
Lenin's Failed Conquest of Europe By Adam Zamoyski This slim work tells the story of a now largely forgotten battle that nearly shattered the peace of post-Versailles Europe and almost brought...