Biography: Colum Kenny has produced an intelligent and wide-ranging biography of a character that still divides opinion

Politics: A recounting of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is unable to recapture the excitement and optimism of the time

Memoir: Will Self chooses to focus on his drug addiction in a meandering and unimpressive autobiography

Impressionistic but heartfelt political commentary

Andrew Lynch delivers his guide to the best non-fiction offerings of 2019 in the genres of history, politics, sport and memoir

From Beirut to Berlin, Trevor McDonald has seen it all in a long and storied career as a newsman – but covering the Troubles was an experience like no other, he tells Andrew Lynch

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A reverential look at the eventful life and times of Suds

Piano man plays it safe with genial but guarded memoir

A warts-and-all account of the Iron Lady’s later years

The letters that reveal Trinity College’s close call during the Rising

The green ‘godmother’ turns her fire against neoliberalism

Going deep into the messy story behind Irish Water

Cameron makes a clean breast of his wasted premiership

The Second Sleep is not a medieval whodunnit akin to Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose. Instead, Harris has conjured up a futuristic nightmare along the lines of George Orwell’s 1984

Why we get fooled again and again by being too trustful

Andrew Lownie’s book is officially a joint profile, giving equal billing to the headstrong and vivacious woman Louis Mountbatten married in 1922

Angels With Blue Faces is an intriguing cold case study in which Lyra McKee's earthy and idealistic voice shines through the bleak subject matter