Anita Brookner: Art & Life by Hermione Lee – A loving, careful and worthwhile biography of an evasive life
Is this biography so much about the books because there’s little to say about the life?
By John Self
Agrippa by Robert Harris: Augustus’s best friend tells all in his fictional memoir
Hinterlands: Journeys through Europe’s Unfinished Frontiers – A bleak but revelatory dispatch
The Bridge by Colm Tóibín: A painful chronicle of relationships in collapse
Richard Osman: ‘My cats are the first thing I would save from danger. Apart from my wife of course’
Switzy by Emma Cline: A remarkable act of imagination and empathy
The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore: Courageous book offers visceral wake-up calls
The Great Dictator by Matthew Sweet: Great gossipy nuggets about Barbara Cartland
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Prophets, Profits, Coaches and Kings by Jared Diamond: How many leaders pass the Hamlet test?
By Pat Carty
The Disappearers by Marlon James: A horrifying and exhilarating portrayal of men queer and straight
By Claire Adam
How the sexual problems of a KGB double agent may have stopped the cold war from going nuclear
By Mark Paul
Setting the Land Free: Visions of a Rewilded Ireland – an urgent manifesto for living with nature
By Neil Hegarty
A stunning novel by T Geronimo Johnson is among this month’s best new crime fiction
By Brian Cliff and Elizabeth Mannion
Elizabeth Wassell Montague: ‘My new novel was partly inspired by the mystery of eating disorders’
By Martin Doyle
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