In Booklaunch #23, we are delighted to carry the shortlist for this year’s Architectural Book Awards, which we sponsor. Titles are available for sale here.​

Now Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall has aired in full on TV, we offer some thoughts about production standards and historical consistency. Page 1.​

We also ask if passive monitoring of social media sites can be legitimate. Page 13.

And we run extracts from four new titles, and two older ones, from EnvelopeBooks.