Steven Bartlett’s self-help guide to helping himself
The precocious entrepreneur styles himself as a business guru but beneath the clichés lies a thinly veiled craving for celebrity.
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How Global Britain props up Putin’s gangster state
Oliver Bullough’s Butler to the World shows how the UK’s enthusiasm for deregulation has made it a global haven for…
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Life Support: a “pound-shop diatribe” against the principles of the NHS
Michael Ashcroft and Isabel Oakeshott claim to be “critical friends” of the NHS, but their disingenuous new book reveals a…
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Reviewed in short: New books from John L Williams, Toni Morrison, Marlon James and Samuel Fisher
CLR James: A Life Beyond the Boundaries by Williams, Recitatif by Morrison, Moon Witch, Spider King by James and Wivenhoe…
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The rise of Jack Reacher: how Lee Child created the ultimate escapist hero
Jack’s back in a new TV series – and its immediate success proves there is such a thing as a…
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In Sexual Revolution, Laurie Penny wages war against bad sex
This broad, ambitious book skilfully skewers everyday sexism, but Penny's feminist uprising underestimates those they wish to save.
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Peter Hennessy’s manifesto for post-pandemic Britain is too sweeping to be useful
In A Duty of Care, the historian asks whether politics after Covid can match the reforming ambition of the 1940s.
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Shirley Hughes showed our world at its best
Her honest depictions of messy homes and weary parents proved that stories about ordinary children could be just as full…
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