Books Book review: Depraved New World is an intimate, scathing dispatch about the failure of Britain’s ruling classThe forensic writing of
Book review: Debunking the myth that property will make you free Rowan Moore’s convincing argument for how Britain fell into its current housing crisis will make familiar reading on this side of the water
Books Book review: PJ Gallagher’s bold, anarchic memoir tackles madness and childhood griefs head onComedian and star of Naked Camera relates wild antics and traumas from his tumultuous life with both humour and perceptive clarity
Books Book review: The Glutton explores a visceral hunger to connectAward-winning author AK Blakemore’s second novel, based on a real historical figure, is gripping, empathetic and startling in its immediacy
Books Book review: Family Meal offers bitter aftertaste of lost loveBryan Washington tells a story of grief and self-destruction through three protagonists, all gay lovers
Books Book review: Neil Jordan’s latest sprinkles elements of fairytale with a film maker’s eye for detailFamiliar themes of identity emerge as Ireland’s most successful director returns to his first career as a fiction writer
Travel Nice: come for the rugby, and you may never leaveThis September you can enjoy a Rugby World Cup clash before taking a stroll on the Prom or through the Old Town in the gorgeous capital of the Côte d’Azur
Books Book review: Brain scientist reveals how we chat the world into being in Talking HeadsIn a fascinating, accessible book, Shane O’Mara reveals the vital connections between conversation and memory, gossip and the formation of society
Books Book review: Sobering account of how radicals are Going MainstreamCounter-terrorism expert Julia Ebner reveals how extreme ideas are radicalising individuals and upending the political middle ground
Book review: Richard Hogan challenges us to change how we think and live more positivelyThe psychotherapist’s guide offers a guide to breaking free from family dysfunction
Books Book review: Anne Frank’s friend relates her own Holocaust horror storytark, poignant memoir that shows us a world gone mad through eyes of a child
Books Book review: Tell Me What I Am is an unsettling thriller with a literary sensibilityUna Mannion’s taut novel presents a lacerating portrait of domestic abuse and examinations of identity and the ferocity of grief
Books Book review: Love in a Time of Hate details the tangled love lives of the artsy set in 1930s EuropeFlorian Illies brings a wry tone to this revealing, offbeat slice of cultural history about the bed-hopping writers and artists of the interwar years
Books Veteran journalist Jon Snow’s inequality polemic unravels quickly under scrutinyIn a sloppy, cliché-ridden polemic, the broadcaster’s suggested cures for society’s ills are the equivalent of putting Band-Aids on gaping wounds
Books Book review: Paean to the power of storytelling and the tales we tell ourselvesFull of humour and humanity, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst’s account of living with multiple sclerosis is both unvarnished and upbeat
Books Book review: Two Sisters memoir a stark, raw and melancholic account of a complicated family life Poet and novelist Blake Morrison had one sister who died after 30 years of alcoholism and another from suicide, here he attempts to excavate the self-destructive forces that led to the deaths of Gill and Josie
Books Book review: Recalling the frenzied, violent hysteria of China’s Cultural RevolutionJournalist Tania Branigan conducted a series of interviews with perpetrators and surviving victims of the bloody 20th century revolution for her book Red Memory while her principal focus is how that violent chapter shapes modern China
Books Book review: Listening and paying attention take centre stage in The Creative Act, Rubin’s New Agey guide to beingRecord producer Rick Rubin’s occasionally banal, self-help-style advice in finding a path to creativity emphasises the art of playing to play rather than playing to win
Travel Seville: a city of spectacular monuments and stunning sunsetsThe Andalusian capital may not be as popular among visitors as Spain’s other cities, but it doesn’t fall short on history, culture, quirky architecture – and famous film and TV locations
Books Toy Fights: Poet paints a precise and occasionally sweet picture of a poor Dundee childhood Former professor of poetry Don Paterson’s book is full of anger about growing up in a Dundee housing estate, but his lightness of tone keeps the book from straying into ‘misery memoir’ territory
