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Cicero Philippics, 1-6 and 7-14 edited and translated by DR Shackleton Bailey

These fresh translations of his magnificent speeches against Mark Antony show that Cicero had much in common with that other great orator - Churchill

Lost London 1870-1945: English Heritage by Philip Davies

A remarkable archive of photographs of London in the late-19th and early-20th century serves as a haunting portal into the bygone life of the capital

The Second Sex, by Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier

A new translation of the feminist bible restores essential passages that have been missing for 60 years

American Rebel by Marc Eliot

The Sunday Times review by Bee Wilson: scowling and squinting his way through his films, Clint Eastwood gives an impression of manly nihilism, but...

The Russian Countess by Edith Sollohub

The Sunday Times review by Antony Beevor: Russian aristocrat's beautifully written memoir of how she survived the traumatising events of the 1917...

Concerning EM Forster by Frank Kermode Weidenfeld £14.99 pp180

Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry by Leanne Shapton

The Sunday Times review by Phil Baker: a strikingly designed novel about a failed relationship told through a series of auction lots

Ghost Colonies by ED Wright

The Sunday Times review by James McConnachie: a murky history of colonial disasters, from the Vikings to cult leader Jim Jones

Going Rogue by Sarah Palin / Sarah from Alaska by Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe

The Sunday Times review by Christopher Hitchens: two books — a biography and her own much-trumpeted memoir — paint an alarming portrait...

1989 The Berlin Wall: My Part in Its Downfall by Peter Millar

The Sunday Times review by Rory MacLean: the author, who lived in East Berlin under the baleful eye of the Stasi, movingly and succinctly portrays...

Blood's a Rover by James Ellroy

The Sunday Times review by John Dugdale: the final instalment in Ellroy’s crime trilogy concludes his ‘sewer crawl’ through the...

A Crisis of Brilliance by David Boyd Haycock

The Sunday Times review byJohn Carey: a lucid study of the tensions between five artists divided by social status but united by the experience of...

The Retreat by Michael Jones

The Sunday Times review by Max Hastings: the atrocities of Hitler’s fatally mismanaged battle for Moscow are brought vividly to life

JG Farrell in His Own Words edited by Lavinia Greacen

The Sunday Times review by Robert Harris: JG Farrell was the great lost hope of British literature. This engrossing collection of his writings takes...

It's a Don's Life by Mary Beard / Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith

The Sunday Times review by Edmond Gordon: spry pithy blogs from the classics professor and witty and original criticism in Zadie Smith's essay...

Splendour & Squalor by Marcus Scriven

Iain Finlayson’s non-fiction reviews of the week: December 12, 2009

Paperback nonfiction - Curriculum Vitae by Muriel Spark

The Times review by Christina Koning. Plus a round-up of this week's other nonfiction paperbacks

Zac Goldsmith: Not such a green god

Tories’ supreme eco-warrior now finds himself out on a limb

The Sunday Times Christmas books: history

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

Cicero Philippics, 1-6 and 7-14 edited and translated by DR Shackleton Bailey

These fresh translations of his magnificent speeches against Mark Antony show that Cicero had much in common with that other great orator - Churchill

Lost London 1870-1945: English Heritage by Philip Davies

A remarkable archive of photographs of London in the late-19th and early-20th century serves as a haunting portal into the bygone life of the capital

The Second Sex, by Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier

A new translation of the feminist bible restores essential passages that have been missing for 60 years

American Rebel by Marc Eliot

The Sunday Times review by Bee Wilson: scowling and squinting his way through his films, Clint Eastwood gives an impression of manly nihilism, but...

The Russian Countess by Edith Sollohub

The Sunday Times review by Antony Beevor: Russian aristocrat's beautifully written memoir of how she survived the traumatising events of the 1917...