The historical parallels don’t need signposting - this timely royal biography about the Duke and Duchess of Windsor tells the ultimate tale of stepping back, writes Marcus Field

Hugo Vickers’s authorised biography of the society photographer was a bestseller when it came out in 1985. The diaries he kept at the time form the basis for this illuminating and brilliantly scurrilous companion to his original book, says Marcus Field 

If you liked Bridgerton, you’ll love this rip-roaring romp of bisexual royal affairs, scheming politicians and endless parties, the main difference being that this story is all true, says Marcus Field

Temperatures ‘low enough to freeze human flesh’ swept through Britain in the terrible winter of 1962; this timely social history has many parallels with today, says Marcus Field 

They called it ‘the gay disease’. This memoir about nursing young men who had been shunned by everyone else is shocking but ultimately uplifting. No wonder it’s bound for Hollywood 

MP Chris Bryant boldly asserts that without the efforts of a small group of queer British  politicians who visited Berlin in the 1930s, we would never have gone to war with Hitler

Fat, puffy and stolid was how Alathea Fitzalan Howard described her friend Princess Elizabeth in these marvellously waspish diaries, while Margaret was needy and had a nasty streak 

On losing a little sister and having a junkie as a dad

Elegant, compelling and full of melancholy beauty

Many Art Deco buildings of the Twenties and Thirties have been restored in time for their centenaries, creating a burgeoning market for properties sporting the movement’s most recognisable features.

Art Deco is back for the new Roaring Twenties. But was it ever really out of fashion? A new exhibition feeds our hunger for glam.

Hugo Vickers’s life of Gladys Marlborough is an extraordinary and tragic story, with special resonance today

Seeking the foundations of humanity that underpinned a monstrous genius

Brutalist Balfron Tower in Poplar introduced East Enders to high-rise living. Now the modernist block has been refurbished with new flats on sale.

A psychotherapist’s sensitive study of how stigmatisation causes mental anguish in gay men