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The Sunday Times review by Roland White: the books that had our reviewer groaning and grinning (sometimes through gritted teeth) in 2009
Novels of the year
Peter Kemp opens the first of the Sunday Times Christmas issues with a selection of the best fiction of 2009, including magnificent work from Colm...
Economics
The Sunday Times review by Dominic Lawson: finance's winners and losers
Sport
The Sunday Times review by Nick Pitt: from cricket square and tennis court to racetrack and football pitch, we celebrate this year’s sporting...
Crime novels of 2009
The Sunday Times review by Joan Smith: 2009 has been a vintage year for crime fiction, We present the best of the bunch
Gardening
The Sunday Times review by Caroline Donald: growing your own fruit and vegetables or letting your garden run stylishly wild? We pick a bumper crop of...
Biography
The Sunday Times review by Frances Wilson: from the fabulous and the frightening to the wits and the bitches
Art
The Sunday Times review by Frank Whitford:entrancing, disturbing, reassuring: our roundup of the best art books of 2009
The Times Christmas books: children’s fiction
From picture books for the young to tales of dystopian futures, spies and ghosts for teenagers, we pick our favourites
The Times Christmas books: the classics
John Keats, Leo Tolstoy — and Chairman Humph: through their words and pictures, the greats live still
The Times Christmas books: poetry
Journeys through a lost industrial England, the mysteries of early infancy and the wonder of the Bastard Toadflax
The Times Christmas Books: Fiction
After a vintage publishing year, there’s a fine haul of novels that merit a spot under your Christmas tree. For the ideal choices, the prize...
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
The Times Christmas books: food
For lovers of fine cuisine, reading about food comes a close second to consuming it
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: Travel
In the year of the ‘staycation’, what better way to widen horizons than by having exotic destinations brought to you?
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...
The Times Christmas books: history
From the earliest Christians via Viking derring-do to a history of MI5, Dan Jones discovers that the past makes good presents
The Times Christmas books: film
The movies may be full of pretty faces but there are deep thinkers, too. Kevin Maher gets better acquainted with Paul Newman, Grace Kelly — and...
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