Books

Including Acts of Service by Lillian Fishman and The Twilight World by Werner Herzog

A look at some of the best books ever written

This addiction memoir is written with such ‘novelistic verve’ that you could mistake it for fiction

The Week Junior’s Summer of Reading challenge celebrates young readers’ ‘superpowers’

Biography is ‘hastily written and translated’, but does capture a remarkable transformation

This ‘crisply readable’ polemic questions whether sexual freedom is really as liberating as it sounds

An ‘exuberant guide’ that will make you think again about these oft-overlooked creatures

This ‘engrossing’ biography provides a ‘hugely enjoyable’ portrait of a brilliant surgeon

Easthope’s memoir of her experiences as a disaster manager is ‘gripping and filled with compassion’

This is an ‘unceasingly agonising, yet always irresistible’ work

Nancy Cunard’s ‘roller-coaster life’ is the focus of this biography

Story explores psychic ‘precognition’ surrounding 1966 Aberfan disaster

Story follows a ‘love square’ between four millennials, who inhabit arty circles in Dublin

The narrative is studded with ‘delicious’ details that make it ‘disgustingly entertaining’

A ‘sharply observed, often witty, eminently moving memoir’

This is a ‘thrilling reassessment of Donne’s oddly hinged career’

Scott’s memoirs tell the story of his disturbed upbringing and traumatic adult life

Rachman analyses strategies used by Putin, Duterte and Bolsonaro to hold onto power

Appleyard sets out to document a way of life that he believes is vanishing

John Richardson’s new volume is clever and flamboyant

Timely analysis of how Britain has helped to launder others’ fortunes

The essential reading list to understand the history behind the war  

Helen Rappaport sets out to bring ‘clarity to Seacole’s life’

This illuminating book suggests that we have got the English painter all wrong

Children’s author and illustrator dies at age of 94

Explore the UK’s top literary destinations and places to stay

Jing Tsu’s ‘enchanting’ book tells the story of the Chinese language over the past 150 years

Hundreds of titles are disappearing from library shelves and syllabuses as the US culture wars escalate

Challenges to titles on library shelves and school syllabuses increasing at ‘unprecedented’ rate

Michael Crick tells the story of how Farage came to play such a decisive role in British politics

Ali’s first novel in 11 years is an ‘atmospheric tale of an Indian family in contemporary Britain’

The centenary of one of the great monuments of Irish culture is being marked around the world

The philosopher ponders what virtual reality could mean for man

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