Free by Chris Anderson

The Sunday Times review by Edward King

Magnificent Desolation by Buzz Aldrin

The Sunday Times review by Ed Caesar: it was downhill all the way for Buzz Aldrin, who followed the Apollo 11 mission with a descent into alcoholism...

Raising My Voice by Malalai Joya

The Sunday Times review by Christina Lamb: the courageous female Afghan MP who has lifted the veil on her country’s corruption

Listening to Grasshoppers by Arundhati Roy

The Sunday Times review by Tarquin Hall

The Selfish Genius by Fern Elsdon-Baker

The Sunday Times review by Philip Ball: has Richard Dawkins become dangerously out of date?

Ten Days that Changed the Nation by Stephen Pollard

The Sunday Times review by Richard Vinen: 60 years of British history are summed up by focusing on 10 pivotal. previously unheralded dates

Empires and Barbarians by Peter Heather

The Sunday Times review by Mary Beard: a new light on the mass migration of the Dark Ages that changed our world

Bloody Victory by William Philpott/1938 by Giles MacDonogh/Men of War by David Crane

The Sunday Times review by Nick Rennison

The Junior Officers’ Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars by Patrick Hennessey

The Times review by Sam Kiley

Iain Finlayson’s nonfiction reviews of the week: July 11, 2009

The Secret Life of France by Lucy Wadham

The Sunday Times review by Wendell Steavenson: after 20 years of life across the Channel, an English author still finds the French mystifying

The Sixties by Jenny Diski

The Sunday Times review by Dominic Sandbrook: the 1960s are revealed as a time of ineffectual solipsism in this memoir of the...

Waste by Tristram Stuart

The Sunday Times review by Bee Wilson: jaw-dropping study argues that reducing our staggering waste of food should become a priority

Ground Control by Anna Minton

The Sunday Times review by Hugh Pearman

The Terrorist-Hunters by Andy Hayman with Margaret Gilmore/Terrorism: How to Respond by Richard English

The Sunday Times review by Max Hastings: what is the best answer to the threat posed by terrorism? Two books — by a policeman and a philosopher...

Franklin by Andrew Lambert

The Sunday Times review by John Carey: a biography of the ill-fated Sir John Franklin casts a new slant on a tale of Arctic endeavour that gripped...

The Case for God: What Religion Really Means by Karen Armstrong

The Sunday Times review by Christopher Hart: a bracing rebuttal of the ‘new atheists’ reveals just how much the idea of God still has to...

Biography: A Very Short Introduction by Hermione Lee

The Sunday Times review by Frances Wilson

My week: Philip Hoare

Blow me, the loner scared of the sea is hit with a book on whales

Authors ditch schools over 'paedophile' register

Plan to force school visitors to register on a national database prompts boycott by authors including Philip Pullman

Children’s authors outraged at school vetting plan

Some of the top names in children’s publishing have all refused to register their names on a new government database

Michael Jackson: Not the final chapter

Michael Jackson had been dead for less than 24 hours before the race started to get his biography on to the streets

Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse bay sold

Anonymous buyer pays £80,000 at auction for 17 acres of Cornish seascape that inspired one of the 20th century's key novels

Leading light of Edinburgh Book Festival steps down

Catherine Lockerbie, the director who took the Edinburgh International Book Festival to the very top, is stepping down

We Are All Made of Glue by Marina Lewycka

The Sunday Times review by Lucy Atkins: ageing, war and trauma are examined with a light touch in this uplifting and warm novel

Reheated Cabbage by Irvine Welsh

The Sunday Times review by Hugo Barnacle: our reviewer detects an unexpectedly sentimental streak in Welsh's new short-story collection

To Heaven by Water by Justin Cartwright

The Sunday Times review by Tom Deveson: skilful and powerful novel exploring the realities of friendship, love, ageing and the approach of death

Hodd by Adam Thorpe

The Sunday Times review by Phil Baker: Robin Hood is recast as a half-mad bandit in this carefully crafted novel

Erica Wagner on the life lessons of the latest Harry Potter

The Ten-Year Nap by Meg Wolitzer

The Times review by Natalie Sandison

Dancing Backwards by Salley Vickers

The Times review by Melissa Katsoulis

Christine Hardyment reviews the latest audio books

Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant

The Times review by Sarah Vine

WH Smith book offer: Past Imperfect by Julian Fellowes

Outlaw by Angus Donald and Hodd by Adam Thorpe

The Times review by Dan Jones

Kate Saunders reviews the week’s fiction: July 11, 2009

Amanda Craig reviews Wheels of War and The Thornthwaite Inheritance

Peter Millar reviews Ultimatum by Matthew Glass and The Arms Maker of Berlin by Dan Fesperman

Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga

The Sunday Times review by Peter Parker: the striking images of grinding poverty portrayed in Adiga’s finely observed short stories are...

My Father's Tears and Endpoint by John Updike

The Sunday times review by Peter Kemp: Updike’s final collection of short stories and a sequence of poems are simply magnificent

Marcel Berlins reviews the latest crime fiction

Still Midnight by Denise Mina; The Lovers by John Connolly; Londongrad by Reggie Nadelson

The Widows of Eastwick by John Updike

The Times review by Chris Power

Kate Saunders’ fiction review of the week: July 4, 2009

This is How by M. J. Hyland Canongate

The Times review by Helen Dunmore

Martin Scorsese on Woodstock festival

The Oscar-winning director reveals that it wasn't all peace and love at the Woodstock Festival in August 1969

The woman MP who defies Afghan warlords

Malalai Joya has survived five assassination attempts and been suspended from parliament, but refuses to be silenced

Book extract: Leviathan

Edited extract from Philip Hoare's prizewinning novel

Short story: The Importance of Having Warm Feet

As an old woman faces her final hours, her daughter is at last able to forgive her for the acute embarrassment inflicted on the young girl 50 years...

Buried alive

Paralysed, mute but alert. Hasso von Bredow describes his struggle

No one does l’amour like the French

When she was swept into marriage by a Parisian, the writer was amazed by the bed-hopping antics of her new circle

God will save you — believe in him or not

Disaster survivors, whatever their spiritual leanings, tend to credit their good fortune to a higher power

Short story: A Family Evening

A woman chose a husband who was rich and undemanding. But has she paid an awful price for being with a man who cares for nothing but money?

Short story: Dog Days

An untimely death threatens to break one person’s strong bond with their four-footed friend. Hounded by memories, it seems their love cannot...

What it takes to survive

In a disaster, most of us turn to marble – but 10% of people calmly make decisions that save their lives

To war, all paperbacks blazing

Patrick Hennessey, a young Guards officer, formed a reading club to relieve the tedium of Iraq and Afghanistan; but then he found himself in a...

Freud: from the horse’s mouth

In extracts from the book he was compiling when he died, the raconteur and wit recalls tales of the turf

Head over heels: the story behind Jimmy Choo

The gossip behind the partnership between It-girl Tamara Mellon and the shoe designer to the Sex and the City generation

The one wicked thing that Dorothy Macmillan did

In the second extract from the new biography of Macmillan, we reveal the legacy of his wife’s open affair — and how a bungled abortion...

Have the French fallen out of love with food?

Twenty five years ago it was hard to have a bad meal in France, now it’s a challenge to even find a decent baguette

The affair that shaped Harold Macmillan’s career

Harold Macmillan was driven almost to suicide by an affair between his wife and his friend and colleague Robert Boothby

Oh God, I wanted her to die

The marriage of actor David Niven was a chaotic mess