May 06, 2011
Lauren Hillenbrand follows up Seabiscuit with the biography of another winner, the Olympic runner and Second World War bombardier Louis Zamperini. Read Article Zamperini is an Unbroken, great survivor
May 06, 2011
Instilling empathy in children from birth will help restore the sense of community that provided a social safety net that is fraying in the West, says psychotherapist Sue Gerhardt. Read Article Better parenting can repair The Selfish Society
May 06, 2011
Edward St Aubyn's At Last finds the series' protagonist, Patrick Melrose, finally coming to terms with childhood sexual abuse. It's cathartic for both protagonist and author, but does it make for good reading? Read Article Latest St Aubyn novel closes Patrick Melrose saga
May 06, 2011
Current events shade the storyline of Follow Me Home, but the plotting is predictable and the storytelling loyal. Read Article Follow Me Home is not battle ready
May 06, 2011
Jean M Auel's Earth Children series ends with The Land of the Painted Caves, an overwritten, under-plotted, disappointing novel. Read Article Auel falls down in Land of Painted Caves
Apr 29, 2011
The Indian leader didn't come to politics fully formed, as an unjustly controversial new biography by Joseph Lelyveld makes clear. Read Article Great Soul: Revealing the man behind the spectacle of Gandhi
Apr 29, 2011
Monica Ali's new novel flirts with the idea that the last princess of Wales survived her Paris car crash and lives on in hiding. A timely commercial premise, but the author loses her nerve. Read Article Untold Story: A bold theory about Princess Diana that pulls its punch
Apr 29, 2011
Edouard Levé killed himself just days after he finished writing Suicide. Yet his own unhappy story remains subordinate to this remarkable novel. Read Article Suicide: Tropes made original, even artistic
Apr 26, 2011
Float through any social event with M's fast facts. This week Rick Arthur looks inside A Tale of Two Cities, first published as a serial in a literary magazine on this day in 1859. Read Article Instant Expert: A Tale of Two Cities
Apr 25, 2011
In 1990, the anti-Qaddafi campaigner Jaballa Matar was kidnapped by Egyptian secret police and handed over to Libya, where he remains in prison. His son, the author Hisham Matar, has written about his search for the truth. Read Article Libyan author Hisham Matar's search for his kidnapped father
