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What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell
The Sunday Times review by Nicolette Jones
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The Sunday Times review by Philip Ball: has Richard Dawkins become dangerously out of date?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
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
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
A Face to the World
How artists promote and conceal themselves in self-portraits
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
The Worst Date Ever by Jane Bussmann
The Sunday Times review by Camilla Long: this account of leaving behind LA’s glitz to follow a peace negotiator to Uganda is tender and...
Joan Bakewell reviews memoirs by Jenny Diski and Lynn Barber
A trip through the most hyped decade of the past century via the memoirs of two women who survived the party
Dancing Backwards by Salley Vickers
The Times review by Melissa Katsoulis
Perfecting Sound Forever: The Story of Recorded Music by Greg Milner
The Times review by Pete Paphides
Things the Grandchildren Should Know by Mark Everett
The Times review by Mark Hodkinson
The Ten-Year Nap by Meg Wolitzer
The Times review by Natalie Sandison
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