The London Library's Trustees have been keeping busy during lockdown and have put together a list of the books they've been reading and would recommend. The eclectic list has something for everybody and ranges from Shakespeare to Putin to a new coming of age novel about a struggling journalist in his 30s.

• Daisy Goodwin: The Splendid and the Vile: a saga of Churchill, family and defiance during the Blitz.by Erik Larsson
• Sophie Murray: Inge’s War by Svenja O’Donnell (out in August)
• Andrew Popplewell: The Great Sea by David Abulafia
• Howard Davies: Mr Tasker's Gods by T F Powys
• Alan Aubry: Shakespeare’s sonnets and Montaigne’s essays
• David Reade: Chivalry and manners in Early Modern England by Keith Thomas
• Philip Broadley: The Rules of Contagion: why things spread and why they stop by Adam Kucharsk
• Philip Broadley: Putin’s People: how the KGB took back Russia and then took on the West by Catherine Belton
• Isabelle Dupuy: The Dumas Club by Arturo Perez Reverte
• Maria Zhivitskaya: Theft by Luke Brown
• David Lough: Jutland 1916 by Nigel Steel & Peter Hart
• Peter Stewart: Maigret in New York by Georges Simenon
• Daisy Goodwin: One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time by Craig Brown
• Frank Lawton: Frank Ramsey: An Excess of Powers
• Giles Milton: Summer Isles: a sea voyage by Philip Marsden

Happy reading!