A clear-eyed portrait of a cold-blooded tyrant
HISTORY: Apollo 11: The Inside Story, By David Whitehouse, Icon Books, €16.45 Richard Nixon cal...
Broadcasting: Airhead: The Imperfect Art of Making News, By Emily Maitlis, Michael Joseph, €24 ...
I Will Never See the World Again is both a haunting account of journalist and author Ahmet Altan’s trial and imprisonment and an invigorating testament to the consolations of the mind
Mixing memoir and psychology with a dash of self-help, Catherine Gray's new book positions itself as a manifesto for recalibrating how we think about singlehood
Non-Fiction: Calypso, By David Sedaris, Little, Brown, €16.10 As soon as David Sedaris bought a...
Fire On All Sides is Rhodes's diary of his five-month European concert tour in 2016
Catherine Blyth’s On Time is a pithy attempt to understand time, why it always feels like it’s speeding up, and how we might try to reclaim it
Shrewdly observed, invariably compassionate and unexpectedly poignant
The differences between men and women are hardwired into the brain
Brendan Daly goes up, up and away during a trip to the picturesque wilds of Catalonia
Breathlessly paced, ricocheting across the Atlantic, written in a clean, unfussy style.
History/Politics; 1956: The Year in Revolt ; By Simon Hall; Faber & Faber, €27
Language Unbecoming a Lady reveals how ‘Robert in accounts’ became The Divine Diana
This shallow, sophomoric text confuses titillation with a genuine examination of the subject
