A Northern Wind: Britain 1962–65 by David Kynaston Bloomsbury Publishing, 704 pages, £30
David Kynaston’s history of Britain between 1945 and 1979, Tales of a New Jerusalem, reaches the 1960s in this, the latest volume of the series. The approach remains the same: an epic of the everyday, heaping up news stories, diary extracts, official reports, adverts, TV reviews and more to provide a kaleidoscopic, ever-moving snapshot of the nation. And like previous volumes, it’s hypnotically readable.