The Sunday Times Christmas books: sport

From cricket square and tennis court to racetrack and football pitch, Nick Pitt celebrates this year’s sporting winners

The Sunday Times Christmas books: gardening

Growing your own fruit and vegetables or letting your garden run stylishly wild? Caroline Donald picks a bumper crop of horticultural guides

The Sunday Times Christmas books: biography

By Frances Wilson: from the fabulous and the frightening to the wits and the bitches

Art

Entrancing, disturbing, reassuring: Frank Whitford rounds up the best art books of 2009

The Times Christmas books: food

For lovers of fine cuisine, reading about food comes a close second to consuming it

The Times Christmas books: wine

A flood of books for oenophiles has poured on to the festive market. We sort out the grand cru from the literary sheep-dip

Pops by Terry Teachout

The Sunday Times review by Robert Sandall: in public he was smiling and sunny, but the real Louis Armstrong, as this excellent life shows, was a far...

Pop in to a pop-up book store

Dreamy days can be had in Black Dog Books, an East London warehouse that has been transformed into a shop-cum-art space

Robots enlisted to preserve nation’s memory

British Library’s automated storage centre at Boston Spa is run by seven robots that operate over 131 miles of space

A reader’s guide to the art of science

A new generation of arts-inclined amateurs are helping the science writing genre to make a textbook comeback

Short Story: Newromancer by Toby Litt

An exclusive short story for Eureka imagines a dystopian Britain blighted by global warming

Publishing jobs go as celebrity books fail

Sales of stars’ memoirs have fallen by a quarter, but celebrities' books still far outstrip more serious fiction

Pop in to a pop-up book store

Dreamy days can be had in Black Dog Books, an East London warehouse that has been transformed into a shop-cum-art space

Robots enlisted to preserve nation’s memory

British Library’s automated storage centre at Boston Spa is run by seven robots that operate over 131 miles of space

A reader’s guide to the art of science

A new generation of arts-inclined amateurs are helping the science writing genre to make a textbook comeback

Short Story: Newromancer by Toby Litt

An exclusive short story for Eureka imagines a dystopian Britain blighted by global warming

Publishing jobs go as celebrity books fail

Sales of stars’ memoirs have fallen by a quarter, but celebrities' books still far outstrip more serious fiction

The Sunday Times Christmas books: crime novels

2009 has been a vintage year for crime fiction. Joan Smith identifies the best of the bunch

The Times Christmas books: sci-fi / fantasy

From Cold War aliens to a Harry Potter for adults, there’s a wealth of choice for the armchair escapist

The Times Christmas books: thrillers

Dan Brown and Stephen King sold by the shelfload, while Stieg Larsson’s trilogy found a fiery closure. But Peter Millar finds many more stories...

Love and Obstacles by Aleksandar Hemon/What Becomes by AL Kennedy

The Sunday Times review by John Spurling

Short Girls by Bich Minh Nguyen/Generation A by Douglas Coupland/Peace by Richard Bausch

The Sunday Times review by Robert Collins

The Original of Laura by Vladimir Nabokov ed Dmitri Nabokov

The Sunday Times review by Kevin Jackson: there’s the elderly gent with a taste for young girls, and plenty of adultery, but Nabokov’s...

Sin in the cities

The Sunday Times review by John Dugdale: sleaze in Berlin and Havana, spook-lore and piracy rub shoulders in our thiller roundup

The week’s paperback fiction: November 21, 2009

In short; the week’s fiction; November 21, 2009

The chief’s plans put to the vote

In this excerpt from The Future of Work, Richard Donkin looks at ways to balance decision-making

Hands off my kids

Running for vice-president was never going to be easy, but Sarah Palin was unprepared for the media storm unleashed on her family

Ofsted’s hidden cult of failure

A whistleblower tells how her fellow inspectors fret more over pupils’ lunch boxes than their literacy

Short story by award-winning writer Helen Simpson

This week is the last chance for published authors to enter the prestigious Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award

Sarah Palin: my life with a Down's child

In her memoir, US vice-presidential candidate tells of the problems and the joy of living with her special needs son

Signs that a big company is about to go wrong

In this excerpt from The Upside of Turbulence, Donald Sull lists the early warning signs of 'active inertia'

Cormac McCarthy talks about The Road

The Road tops our pool of the decade’s best 100 books. In a rare interview, its author, Cormac McCarthy, talks about religion, fatherhood and...

Fragments of Nabokov...

Vladimir Nabokov wanted his last novel burnt. But it survived and, 32 years after his death, we publish this extract

Alex Rider exclusive: Incident in Nice

A short story adventure starring the teenage spy, written exclusively for The Times by the author of the popular series

A cold man tamed by his dogs

At the start of their marriage, the club owner Mark Birley had few paternal instincts, recalls Annabel Goldsmith in her memoirs, but an unexpected...