The Third Reich at War
by Richard J Evans, Allen Lane, 944pp, £30 With the third volume of his trilogy about Hitler's Germany, Professor Evans has "accomplished a masterpiece of historical scholarship", said Antony Beevor in the Times. It covers the Nazis' "triumph and nemesis" as their early victories in the Second World War gave… [continued]
The Widows of Eastwick
by John Updike, Hamish Hamilton, 320pp, £18.99 "On the face of it, a sequel to John Updike's The Witches of Eastwick is a promising idea," said Stephen Amidon in the Sunday Times. His 1984 fantasia about three suburban witches turning their neat town upside down was one of his most… [continued]
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life
by Gerald Martin, Bloomsbury, 688pp, £25 In July 1965, a Colombian writer living in Mexico City decided to take his family on holiday to Acapulco, said Philip Hensher in the Spectator. Although respected in a few literary circles, he was largely unknown and very hard up. Suddenly, on the road,… [continued]
Henry: Virtuous Prince
by David Starkey, Harper, 400pp, £25 This is the book that David Starkey was "born to write", said Jerry Brotton in the Sunday Telegraph: "the definitive life of the
biggest, naughtiest royal of them all, Henry VIII". Except that Virtuous Prince isn't quite all that: it gives us only the… [continued]
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The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
by Alice Schroeder, Bloomsbury, 976pp, £25 "Earlier this year, Warren Buffett was anointed as the world's richest man," said Robert Colvile in the Sunday Telegraph. But as
the financial crisis shreds economies and reputations, the 78-year-old investor from Omaha, Nebraska, "is looking the world's wisest, too". Buffett saw… [continued]
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The Gate of Air
by James Buchan, Quercus, 224pp, £14.99 James Buchan's novels receive less attention than they deserve, said John Burnside in the Times: "He is one of our finest writers, a
master of narrative and of social observation." His new book is both a "brilliant study of rural decay" and… [continued]
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The White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga, Atlantic, 336pp, £12.99 Aravind Adiga's debut novel, which won the Booker Prize last week, is already causing offence in India for its defiantly unflattering
portrait of the country’s economic miracle, said Stuart Jeffries in the Guardian. Adiga, a Madras-born ex-Time magazine journalist, has written "a tale… [continued]
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Me Cheeta: the Autobiography
Fourth Estate, 336pp, £16.99 Some surprise has been expressed that Cheeta, the chimpanzee who starred with Johnny Weissmuller in the Tarzan movies, should have written a memoir, said
Craig Brown in the Mail on Sunday. But if Jordan, Geri Halliwell and Chris Moyles can write so-called autobiographies, then why not… [continued]
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The Age of Wonder
by Richard Holmes, Harper Press, 380pp, £25 We tend to think of Romanticism and science as being opposed to one another, said Mike Jay in the Daily Telegraph. Yet, as
Richard Holmes shows in this exhilarating "relay race of scientific stories", the period between the 1770s and 1830s was… [continued]
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John Lennon: The Life
by Philip Norman, HarperCollins, £25, 854pp "From the moment he entered the world in 1940 during a German bombing raid on Liverpool, to the point at which he left it 40 years later, shot dead on his doorstep by a schizophrenic fan, John Lennon was a lifelong stranger… [continued]
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