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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

Doctoring the Mind by Richard Bentall

The Sunday Times review by Bryan Appleyard: one of psychiatry’s most eloquent enemies points out that we’re getting better at treating...

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...

The Supremes

The rise and fall of pop's most successful female band

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

Philip Hoare's whale of a book

Philip Hoare is a working-class boy who went from punk to high society; this week he scooped a key literary prize

Richard Whitehead reviews the latest cricket books

Hoggy: Welcome to my World by Matthew Hoggard; True Colours: My Life by Adam Gilchrist; The Top 100 Cricketers of All Time by Christopher...

Iain Finlayson’s non-fiction reviews of the week: July 4, 2009

A new Tiananmen – but this time China’s rebels are online

A bloggers’ revolt has forced China to abandon efforts to censor the internet. Will it lead to more freedom or trigger a fresh crackdown?

Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town by Mary Beard

The Times review by Ross Leckie

Bible of the aristocracy abandons chauvinism

Traditionalists object as Burke’s decides to list children in order of birth and those who are technically illegitimate

The Empire Stops Here by Philip Parker

The Sunday Times review by Brian Schofield: an enjoyable trek around the Roman empire makes for an unexpectedly revealing guidebook

Summer reading - The Sunday Times top 12 choices in fiction and nonfiction

The Sunday Times top 12 choices in fiction and nonfiction

And God Created Cricket by Simon Hughes PLUS Ashes to Ashes by Marcus Berkmann

The Sunday Times review by Dominic Lawson: two books try to find out what went wrong with English cricket — and provide, at least, the...

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

Doctoring the Mind by Richard Bentall

The Sunday Times review by Bryan Appleyard: one of psychiatry’s most eloquent enemies points out that we’re getting better at treating...

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