Detectives in the Shadows: A Hard-Boiled History, by Susanna Lee Clive Bloom finds the rap sheet on an iconic cultural figure frustratingly incomplete By Clive Bloom 13 August
Night Raiders: Burglary & the Making of Modern Urban Life in London, 1860-1968, by Eloise Moss Clive Bloom considers the development of a particularly disturbing form of crime By Clive Bloom 25 July
Playboys and Mayfair Men: Crime, Class, Masculinity, and Fascism in 1930s London, by Angus McLaren Clive Bloom enjoys a sociological study of why a group of rich layabouts became crooks – and how society dealt with them By Clive Bloom 23 November
Revolutionary Yiddishland: A History of Jewish Radicalism, by Alain Brossat and Sylvie Klingberg, translated by David Fernbach Clive Bloom on the utopians who struggled to realise their dream of a building a secular socialist Jewish state in Europe By Clive Bloom 15 September
Imperial lather Support for the monarchy is not this sceptred isle's only narrative, insists Clive Bloom. From Thomas Paine to bolshie bunting-subverters, arguments for a Republic weave in and out of our national story By Clive Bloom 28 April
