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Sapper Martin: The Secret Great War Diary of Jack Martin edited by Richard van Emden

The Sunday Times review by Neil Hanson

Never Kiss a Man in a Canoe by Tanith Carey

The Sunday Times review by Lynne Truss: there’s a certain amusement value in this compilation of problem-page advice, but our worried reviewer...

The Great Silence by Juliet Nicolson

The Sunday Times review by Nick Rennison: how Britain struggled to come to terms with the terrible suffering and loss of life inflicted by the first...

Policing Controversy by Ian Blair

The Sunday Times review by Max Hastings: Ian Blair’s memoir of his turbulent years as Commissioner of the Met reveals him as self-pitying,...

The Letters of TS Eliot: Volumes 1 and 2 edited by Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton

The Sunday Times review by John Carey: the huge number of newly discovered letters in these volumes sheds unexpected light on Eliot’s...

The Political Gene by Dennis Sewell

The Sunday Times review by James McConnachie: how ‘natural selection’ went rapidly from a Darwinian observation to a justification for...

Free Radical: A Memoir by Vince Cable

The Sunday Times review by Robert Harris: the political late-bloomer who became famous for explaining the credit crunch reveals that he’s not...

Too Big to Fail: Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street by Andrew Ross Sorkin

The Sunday Times review by Dominic Lawson: an account of the attempt by America’s financial chiefs to save Lehman Brothers from collapse is a...

Erica Wagner on Diana Athill’s memoirs

Athill’s book is a sturdy breakwater against the tides of ghosted “sleb” kiss’n’tell

Jealousy by Catherine Millet

Millet’s gospel of sexual abandon found at least one convert – her husband. Ouch

The American Civil War by John Keegan

A noted British author tackles America’s most intimate conflict

Our Choice — A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis by Al Gore

Al Gore has faced criticism for talking up climate change without offering answers. Does his new book remedy that?

Erica Wagner reviews the week’s paperback nonfiction: November 7, 2009

Letters of Ted Hughes edited by Christopher Reid

Iain Finlayson’s non-fiction reviews of the week: November 7, 2009

Meltdown Iceland: How the Global Crisis Bankrupted an Entire Country by Roger Boyes, The Last Veteran: Harry Patch and the Legacy of War by Peter...

A window to the soul of John Keats

As the Romantic poet is celebrated in a major film, our writer searches for his spirit in the city in which he died

John Keats: How to write a love letter

It’s never too late to become a Romantic poet. Our expert looks at the passion that drives us to verse and provides guidance on how to craft a...

Vince Cable: Come join me in the doghouse

The sage of the credit crunch is now as often wrong as right

Telling Tales by Melissa Katsoulis

The Sunday Times review by Christopher Hart: from fabricated misery memoirs to an academic parodies: a witty study of literary fraudulence

The Eitingons by Mary-Kay Wilmers

The Sunday Times review by Nick Rennison

What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell

The Sunday Times review by Edward King

Sapper Martin: The Secret Great War Diary of Jack Martin edited by Richard van Emden

The Sunday Times review by Neil Hanson

Never Kiss a Man in a Canoe by Tanith Carey

The Sunday Times review by Lynne Truss: there’s a certain amusement value in this compilation of problem-page advice, but our worried reviewer...

The Great Silence by Juliet Nicolson

The Sunday Times review by Nick Rennison: how Britain struggled to come to terms with the terrible suffering and loss of life inflicted by the first...

Policing Controversy by Ian Blair

The Sunday Times review by Max Hastings: Ian Blair’s memoir of his turbulent years as Commissioner of the Met reveals him as self-pitying,...

The Letters of TS Eliot: Volumes 1 and 2 edited by Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton

The Sunday Times review by John Carey: the huge number of newly discovered letters in these volumes sheds unexpected light on Eliot’s...