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From master forgers to 18th-century London prostitution, Andrew Holgate uncovers a world of mischief in the year’s best history books

By Brian Schofield: parlour games for boys, an angry young man’s guide to 2009, and everything you wanted to know about the year’s news...

Dancing snowmen, retellings of The Snow Queen and Lewis Carroll, and princesses galore abound in Nicolette Jones’s choice of the year’s...

From Hollywood excesses and a spot of misanthropy to tormented poets: Christopher Hart identifies the lives that will last the course

Tricks and Tudors, and magic and modern India are brought to life in Karen Robinson's selection

The mad, the bad and the downright beautiful: Antonia Quirke lines up the year’s most sparkling volumes

The queens of Motown rub shoulders with Louis Armstrong, Britpop, the rise and fall of DJs, the Hacienda and the record industry’s woes. Robert...

Darwin and climate change dominated the scientific community’s agenda this year. Philip Ball picks the titles making a bang

Mayhem, meltdown and John Maynard Keynes - getting to the heart of the credit crunch

The rights and wrongs of leaders’ memoirs

Facing Jackson, the Velvet Undergound and the Sixties in pictures, the Beatles still steal the show

Stark black and white or glorious self-conscious colour, these books enraptured our eyes during 2009

From war in Gaza to Jewish humour, it’s been a week of moving pictures

A rising body count - and some laugh-out-loud jokes

Mad science, bad science, and all things in between. We pick the year’s best

What do Times writers do in their spare time? Surprise, surprise, they write books. Here are the best of 2009

Memoirs can be flabby, but Hollywood stardom, ambition and G&Ts can keep us reading these glittering recollections

The books that had Roland White groaning and grinning (sometimes through gritted teeth) in 2009

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...

The Best Books of 2008. The Sunday Times recommended reads for this Christmas

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