Books

Biographer Sathnam Sanghera on our unresolved problems with the late singer

For two weeks, I told everyone about the book I was reading – including an older lady on a train. And then I read one of its stories…

Tari Lang’s memoir discusses growing up under Indonesia's military dictatorship while much of society carried on as normal

The vice president has gone from hillbilly to hypocrite, and Communion exposes the gulf between belief and behaviour

Patrick Freyne’s creations The Heathens star in a book that’s hilarious and heart-wrenching

With guns, grenades, flamethrowers and sabotage training, the Home Guard were no laughing matter

From Rwanda to Iraq, Sally Hayden has spent her career reporting from war zones. Her new book highlights extraordinary acts by ordinary people caught up in crisis

The former chancellor’s Can We Be Rich Again? offers a dated prescription that breezes past immigration in the blink of an eye

You need to be the right kind of deluded to write a book. If you are the wrong sort – sorry – you’re heading for disaster

A brilliant, forensic, sector-by-sector analysis of the damage done to our economy, our businesses and our daily lives by leaving the European Union

The childminder jailed for a racist X post is to self-publish her autobiography, A Tweet Too Far? But who is the unlikely-named ghostwriter, Gen Nevis?

Becoming more sociable isn't about changing who you are, but taking a chance. It’s worth the risk

The former deputy prime minister has declared the advance for her memoirs - and it's nowhere near the huge amount touted

Gary Stewart was brilliant, briefly revered and doomed by drug addiction. Now a new biography finally gives him his due

Frank Furedi’s wearying In Defence of Populism reveals it offers no coherent and workable policy agenda and relies on authoritarian ‘solutions’

The traitor was driven by Marxist beliefs, a snobbish desire for dominance – but also a deadly naivety

Only 34 people alive are in the most exclusive club on the planet. One photographer set out to track them down

An argument has broken out over a short story prize. But the argument over whether the author was human has revealed an unsettling truth about computer-generated text

A thaw between Xi and Trump is worrying residents of the independent island

Non-fiction sales are declining as fathers swap weighty Churchill biographies for history podcasts

The screen legend had 49 homes in her 36 years, and took her collection of 400 books wherever she moved

The damage from online shopping was bad enough – but now a new threat has emerged

Violence silenced her, before she decided to tell the world about it

The small matter of her ex-husband pleading guilty to embezzling £400,310.65 from the SNP won't stop the former first minister's book tour

The effortlessly stylish star preferred walking her dogs or arranging flowers to attending galas and premieres

How did the future M People founder make Manchester dance? He says it’s all about the attitude

In a new book, Cal Flyn describes the competing feelings she has on approaching the edge of a live volcano. It is a reminder of the power and mystery of the sublime

Boyhood author David Keenan is more like a soothsayer than a novelist

A capital built and rebuilt by dreamers, schemers and evildoers has gone from squalor to a hollowed-out paradise

Howl dials down the tirades for sorrowful soul-searching and reasoned debate

The US author’s best-selling The Hate U Give is being removed from school libraries in America - and now in Britain too

The Oscar-winner’s Bounty is a subversively beautiful work about the ugliness of colonialism