From Simon Jenkins to Tessa Hadley: new books reviewed in short

A Short History of British Architecture: From Stonehenge to the Shard by Simon Jenkins .

Rock critic Greil Marcus’s slim new volume, What Nails It, reflects on a career that led him to join rock's pantheon.

Laurence Blair tells an alternative history of South America as he makes his way across nine countries that vanished.

The only function Mum seems to serve is to reinforce the notion that a woman must endure the inescapable doom of marital misery.

Their depressingly conformist arc ultimately suggests that women should be submissive, not subversive.

In failing to utilise a modern lens to reimagine the past, and the ways in which women can leverage femininity and power.