Non-Fiction
The Devonshires by Roy Hattersley, review
Noel Malcolm enjoys Roy Hattersley's engaging account of the family that made Chatsworth.
Children of the Days by Eduardo Galeano - review
Here, Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano re-presents history through a new lens, with one anecdote for each day of the year.
Paperback review: The Daughters of Mars, By Thomas Keneally
Naomi and Sally are Australian sisters and nurses serving during the First World War who both have their own reasons for leaving home and joining up.
Review: Impulse - Why We Do What We Do Without Knowing, By Dr David Lewis
It is a fascinating quirk of human nature that a major portion of our mental activity occurs at a level inaccessible to our conscious selves.
Photography book review: Everest - Summit of Achievement, By Stephen Venables
On 29 May 1953, the New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and the Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to reach the summit of the planet's highest mountain, described by Hillary as "a symmetrical beautiful snow cone".
Paperback review: Former People: The Last Days of the Russian Aristocracy, By Douglas Smith
"A new and hostile Russia glared through the large windows of the palace," wrote Tsar Nicholas's brother, the Grand Duke Alexander, after a ball in 1903.
Streetlife, By Leif Jerram
Jerram challenges the significance of ideology in this lively history of the 20th century through topics ranging from street protest to sex.
The Enigma of the Return, By Dany Laferri
After years of estrangement in a foreign land, what can a great Haitian writer expect to find on his return home? The remembered warmth and beauty of Haiti have remained with Dany Laferri
The First Crusade, By Peter Frankopan
The sub-title "the call from the east" does not refer to Jerusalem but Constantinople.