Off with their heads! This month we sympathized less with French aristocrats than author BARONESS Emmushka Orczy might wish. Blakeney is a himbo, Marguerite lives in the pretty people bubble, and Batman is fascist.

 Recommendations:

*  Lauren Willig, Secret history of the Pink Carnation

* Paula Volsky, Illusion

* Simon Schama, Citizens 

* Alexis de Tocqueville, The Old Regime and the Revolution (L’ancien Regime et la Revolution)

* Hilary Mantel’s, A Place of Greater Safety