Koestler's Reflections on Hanging, which was serialised in five lengthy instalments in the Observer, demonstrated that the overwhelming majority of the crimes were murders resulting from domestic violence.
Rawnsley's book, The End of the Party, will be serialised in the Observer across two weekends, starting this Sunday, 21 February.
The book will be serialised in the Guardian the previous week.
This is not a book likely to be serialised in the Daily Mail.
These can be serialised in various formats, including Atom (used for RSS feeds), RDF or RDF-a (for declaring RDF triples).
Daily Express serialisation (1964) Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang was serialised in the Daily Express newspaper in five episodes over the course of a week, from Monday 19 October 1964, to Friday 23 October 1964.
In 1836-37 his work The Poetry of Architecture was serialised in London's Architectural Magazine and, six years later, he anonymously published the first volume of his major work, Modern Painters.
Two novels were serialised in Impulse, both well-received: Harry Harrison's Make Room! Make Room! (later made into the movie Soylent Green), and Moorcock's The Ice Schooner.
His new book, some 14 years on from his first biography, is being serialised in the Sunday Times, with the second instalment due in two days' time.
When the novel was accepted for publication in 1956, he told only his wife ("a horse country Virginian" with whom he went on to have four children), and when it was serialised in a magazine, he was all innocence.
