Sex, scandal and anti-Semitism – the vivid life of Peggy Guggenheim
Written with Leslie Jamieson, Rebecca Godfrey’s elegant imagining of the heiress’s life celebrates the power of beauty, freedom and art
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Written with Leslie Jamieson, Rebecca Godfrey’s elegant imagining of the heiress’s life celebrates the power of beauty, freedom and art
Mythical creatures have long fascinated humanity, writes Natalie Lawrence in Enchanted Creatures. But what do they reveal about our world?
The Irish novelist came from a generation where writers were often public figures. That’s unthinkable now
Juan Rulfo’s book Pedro Páramo remains largely unknown in Britain. With a stage show and a Netflix film on the way, that’s about to change
Who said comics have to be comic? This year’s crop gave us haunted spas, apocalyptic visions – and the beauty of pastoral France
This Christmas, young readers can look forward to tales of His Majesty, three wily monkeys and a sumptuous reimagining of Peter Pan
Looking for a Christmas present for the music-lover in your life? Try Johnny Cash's lyrics, Sly Stone's memoir or Paul McCartney's snapshots
Our top thinkers turned the quest for hard truths into a mind-blowing funride
Year two of the war produced breathless tales of resistance, rebuttals to Russian propaganda, and the death of a promising young writer
This year, marriage went under the microscope in engrossing tales of mutual obsession, catastrophic union and doublethink
The Tory meltdown was a sign of the fractious spirit of the times. But consensus is possible – here are our politics picks of the year
In the 16 best poetry books of the year, readers meet Shakespeare's wife and Chekhov's sisters, a French comte and a wild London hyena
Moon Unit Zappa, daughter of Frank, recalls how the Decade of Love caused havoc in her childhood in her memoir Earth to Moon
Benjamin Nathans’s To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause examines the bravery – and weary wit – of those who took on the USSR from within
The MP for Birmingham Yardley’s fourth book, Let’s Be Honest, features no revelations or political insights – and some strange omissions
As Tim Tate’s book explains, Spycatcher, a 1987 memoir by Peter Wright, sold in its millions while the Government tried farcically to ban it
Rare find is part of a collection of Lord of the Rings items worth £300,000
In Kate Weinberg’s There’s Nothing Wrong With Her, a chronically ill young woman escapes into fantasies with erotic overtones
In Mr Geography, a retired teacher walks across Europe, dwelling on a doomed love-affair to subtle and tender effect
The Irish novelist came from a generation where writers were often public figures. That’s unthinkable now
In Rosa by Starlight, we’re told a shrewd, evocative tale of a girl who suffers under a heartless uncle and aunt – then turns the tables
The Houdini Inheritance, the latest novel by Emma Carroll, is a rich 1920s-set tale of thrills, stunts and mysterious deaths
A Wild Walk to School, a delightful book by Rebecca Cobb, contrasts the imaginative world of a child’s mind with a routine weekday morning
Watts and Whiskerton, a smart new novel by illustrator Meg McLaren, follows a dog with a nose for crime and his feline companion
In Sarah Merrett’s thrilling debut, The Others, set in 1900, a young boy loses his astronomer grandmother – and finds a wounded alien
The Fun We Had, a beautiful, gentle, rhyming story by Charissa Coulthard, sees a little girl visit her elderly grandmother, and reminisce
Time Runs like a River, Emma Carlisle’s latest book, uses gentle illustrations and lilting rhymes to foster a surprisingly deep message
Mayowa and the Sea of Words, Chibundu Onuzo’s debut novel, about a girl who takes on a Right-wing MP, sacrifices plot to preaching
Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include an extraordinary posthumous collection from Gboyega Odubanjo and JH Prynne’s unlikely lullabies
Christopher Childers has spent 10 years on The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse – and his translations sing from the page
From Raymond Chandler's slippery similes to a scene Austen hid, a new exhibition reveals great writers' early drafts and discarded ideas
As the Irish singer champions The Forgotten Yeats Sisters for Sky Arts, she talks about women in history and the thrill of rock'n'roll