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Biography books

October 2024
  • A portrait of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, George Villiers, by Peter Paul Rubens.

    The Scapegoat by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review – James I’s beloved bedfellow

    A biography of the Duke of Buckingham brings the royal favourite, and his ‘entrancingly strange’ world, to life
  • The journalist Claud Cockburn in London in June 1945.

    ‘A street-boy throwing stones at pompous windows’: Claud Cockburn and the birth of guerrilla journalism

    Forty years after the death of the man who exposed Nazi sympathisers in Britain and interviewed Al Capone, his son used MI5 files to illuminate his amazing story in a new book

    • Book of the day
      Reagan: His Life and Legend by Max Boot review – a head of state lost without a script

    • Book of the day
      Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller review – a marvel of narrative non fiction

    • Kingmaker by Sonia Purnell review – a woman of influence

September 2024
  • Donald Trump in a helicopter over New York in 1987.

    Lucky Loser review – how Donald Trump squandered his wealth

  • Neneh Cherry

    Book of the day
    A Thousand Threads by Neneh Cherry review – life’s rich pageant

  • ‘I hated the attention that winning brought, though I still loved writing’ … Left, Gwyneth Lewis today, and as a child.

    ‘Having been repeatedly annihilated by my mother, I’m resilient as hell’: Gwyneth Lewis

  • a smiling Hillary Clinton, one arm raised, at a campaign rally at the Intramural Fields at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona in November 2016

    Something Lost, Something Gained by Hillary Rodham Clinton review – the pain of post-Trump stress disorder

  • Book of the day
    Character Limit by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac review – Musk’s Twitter takeover

  • Book of the day
    Kingmaker by Sonia Purnell review – Pamela Churchill Harriman’s astonishing life of seduction and power

  • From a new Murakami to a memoir by Cher: the best books of the autumn

  • Book of the day
    The Many Lives of James Lovelock by Jonathan Watts – man of many myths

  • Australian arts in focus
    Prime Minister’s Literary awards 2024: Andre Dao wins $80,000 for debut novel Anam

  • Book of the day
    Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux review – savage with a sensitive side

  • ‘Parliament was the most overpoweringly male place I had ever worked’: Diane Abbott on becoming an MP, dating Jeremy Corbyn and media intrusion – exclusive extract

August 2024
  • A portrait of a man wearing a black blazer and holding an electric guitar

    Traffic’s Dave Mason: ‘On one level, I could hate every one of them’

  • Queen Elizabeth II at an event at King's College, London in 2012.

    A Voyage Around the Queen by Craig Brown review – the head that wears the crown

  • Sarah Moss

    My Good Bright Wolf by Sarah Moss review – trauma response

  • Lawrence and Will Hodgkinson, Lower Marsh, SE1, in one of their happier moments together.

    Book of the day
    Street-Level Superstar: A Year With Lawrence by Will Hodgkinson review – portrait of a wayward would-be pop star

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