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The NHE Festive Gift Shop

November 6, 2024

Welcome to the NHE Festive Gift Shop! Browse our handpicked recommendations for any reader, and find the perfect gifts.

Dmitri Shostakovich’s music, and the master of the double-entendre

September 25, 2024

The 25th of September marks the birthday of Dmitri Shostakovich, whose life and times, according to Stephen Johnson, is ‘one of the most dramatic, stirring, at times even darkly comical in the history of classical music’.

William McCrum, Robert McCrum and the story of the penalty kick

September 18, 2024

The story of the penalty kick is one of chance, risk and obsession that took Robert McCrum many years to uncover. Read the story of how the book came into being.

When writing dictates the format: What We Talk About When We Talk About Crime

September 4, 2024

Freed from the constraints of academic criminology writing, Jennifer Fleetwood recounts how her new book began to take shape.

Our best Ian Nairn quotes

August 29, 2024

To commemorate Ian Nairn, enjoy some of the best quotes from our most passionate, outraged architectural critic.

Giveaway: What We Talk About When We Talk About Crime

August 7, 2024

Enter our giveaway until the 15th of August for a chance to win our newest book ahead of publication, and a bottle of wine to enjoy alongside.

Victorian gossip: The rivalry between Dickens and W.M. Thackeray

July 18, 2024

Read about the literary rivalry between the two supreme male novelists of the Victorian era: W.M. Thackerary and Charles Dickens.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Nietzsche: A bold new translation

June 20, 2024

How did NHE come to publish a seminal work by Nietzsche?

What We Talk About When We Talk About Crime: An upcoming paperback original from NHE

June 17, 2024

Introducing a new paperback original from NHE by British criminologist Jennifer Fleetwood.