Strong Words Issue 51

Strong Words is for people who love books, love reading about them, and need an entertaining, useful and reliable source of suggestions as to what to read next. Now published 6 times a year, it covers new fiction and nonfiction alike and has developed a fanatical following who can’t get enough of its witty enthusiasm and its utter refusal to admit blurb, cliché and academic jargon.

Issue 51 brings you stories of scandal from a new book on Emperor Nero to sexual blackmail and espionage in 1960s Russia to a biography of a modern day art swindler. Plus autobiographies about growing up around musicians, a memoir from ex-GQ editor, Dylan Jones and ten great new novels to add to the reading list.