Search

Stealing the Wave by Andy Martin Bloomsbury, pounds 7.99 Surfing is not much given to under-statement, and Andy Martin does not buck the trend. This book, about the rivalry between […]

Forgotten Wars by Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper Penguin, pounds 10.99 The end of Britain's Asian empire is the subject of this dauntingly impressive work by Christopher Bayly and Tim […]

I Found My Horn: One Man's Struggle with the Orchestra's Most Difficult Instrument by Jasper Rees 312pp, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pounds 14.99 T pounds 11.99 (plus pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 […]

Redemption Song by Chris Salewicz Harper, pounds 10.99 There is much about the life of Joe Strummer, the front man of the Clash, that lends itself to biography. There's the […]

Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann, tr by Carol Brown Janeway Quercus, pounds 7.99 This marvellous historical adventure brings together two Enlightenment heavyweights: the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss and the […]

The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland 288pp, Bloomsbury, pounds 10.99 (pbk) T pounds 10.99 (plus pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4112 Douglas Coupland has built his novel-writing career on a […]

The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano tr by Natasha Wimmer 577pp, Picador, pounds 16.99 T pounds 14.99 (plus pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4112 Roberto Bolano was a Chilean poet […]

Noir by Olivier Pauvert tr by Adriana Hunter 256pp, Atlantic Books, pounds 8.99 (pbk) T pounds 8.99 (plus 99p p&p) 0870 428 4112 Olivier Pauvert's debut novel is a bleak […]

The Worms Can Carry Me to Heaven by Alan Warner Vintage, pounds 7.99 Alan Warner's fifth novel leaves his usual setting of the Scottish Highlands for the Mediterranean coast. Manolo […]

Londonstani by Gautam Malkani Perennial, pounds 7.99 London's Brit-Asian youth have waited long enough for a defining novel, and the journalist Gautam Malkani's debut seems to be it: the designer […]

Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name by Vendela Vida 226pp, Atlantic Books, pounds 10.99 T pounds 10.99 (plus pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4112 Vendela Vida's second novel begins […]

Mother Country by Jeremy Harding Faber & Faber, pounds 6.99 The journey of any adoptee trying to trace his origins will be bittersweet, coloured as much by loss as by […]

Killing Johnny Fry: a Sexistential Novel by Walter Mosley 288pp, Bloomsbury, pounds 10.99 T pounds 10.99 (plus pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4112 No one can say they weren't warned. […]

Lost Cosmonaut by Daniel Kalder Faber and Faber, pounds 7.99 Styling himself an 'anti-tourist', Scottish twenty-something slacker Daniel Kalder visits some of the most remote corners of Europe, the forgotten […]

The Night Watch by Sarah Waters Virago, pounds 7.99 Sarah Waters's fourth novel has followed in the footsteps of her third, Fingersmith, by making it on to the shortlists of […]

A Winter Book by Tove Jansson tr by Silvester Mazzarella, David McDuff and Kingsley Hart Sort of Books, pounds 6.99 Not strictly speaking a companion piece to her much-loved A […]

Looking for Trouble by Richard Beeston Tauris, pounds 10.99 Over the second half of the last century Richard Beeston was the Telegraph's man in Beirut, Moscow and Washington, and this […]

Strangeland by Tracey Emin Sceptre, pounds 7.99 You don't have to be an admirer of Tracey Emin to be struck by the power of this memoir, though even fans may […]

Invasion, 1940 by Derek Robinson Constable, pounds 7.99 Derek Robinson's mildly aggrieved book asks a simple question: why does everyone thank the RAF's victory in the Battle of Britain for […]

Until I Find You by John Irving (Black Swan, pounds 8.99) Alice Stronach, a Scottish tattooist, takes Jack, her five-year-old son, on a trip across Scandinavia to look for his […]

On Beauty by Zadie Smith (Penguin, pounds 7.99) Like White Teeth, this is a novel of two families: the liberal and chaotic Belseys and the conservative, smugly happy Kippses. Zadie […]

The Pursuit of Victory by Roger Knight (Penguin, pounds 9.99) Roger Knight begins his excellent biography of Nelson with a description of the audacious stern-anchoring manoeuvre that began the Battle […]

God's Secret Agents by Alice Hogge (Harper Perennial, pounds 8.99) Everyone knows about the Spanish Armada and the Gunpowder Plot, those two most violent attempts to return post-Reformation England to […]

The Sea by John Banville (Picador pounds 7.99) John Banville's surprise triumph in the 2005 Man Booker Prize, beating both Julian Barnes and Kazuo Ishiguro, caused as much critical eyebrow-raising […]

The Letters of Lytton Strachey ed by Paul Levy (Penguin, pounds 20) You reach for the letters of Lytton Strachey for what? High-class gossip, finely tooled wit and plenty of […]

Rosebery: Statesman in Turmoil by Leo McKinstry (John Murray, pounds 10.99) You might be forgiven for asking, 'Who?' The Fifth Earl of Rosebery is a member of that saddest of […]

Here Is Where We Meet by John Berger (Bloomsbury, pounds 7.99) This strange, enchanting book starts with 'John' - an alter-ego of sorts for Berger, we presume - mooching around […]

Surviving the Sword by Brian MacArthur (Abacus, pounds 9.99) Many Allied prisoners who made it back from the Japanese camps at the end of the Second World War were reluctant […]

The Book of Secrets by M G Vassanji (Canongate, pounds 7.99) The decline of Empire, seen from Britain, is often represented as the going down of the sun. In this […]

The Lost Kingdoms of Africa by Jeffrey Tayler (Abacus, pounds 7.99) Jeffrey Tayler's fascinating, politically minded travelogue takes him 2,500 miles across the Sahel, an inaccessible and barren region that […]

The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow (Arrow, pounds 7.99) It is 1975 and Art Keller is a DEA spook helping Mexico to burn its opium farmers out of […]

The Harold Nicolson Diaries 1907-1963 ed by Nigel Nicolson (Phoenix, pounds 9.99) A good diary of public life is both an education and an indulgence. It gives a personal account […]

The Strange Death of Tory England by Geoffrey Wheatcroft (Penguin, pounds 8.99) It's a timely question. How did the party of Baldwin, Chamberlain and Churchill become that of Major, Duncan […]

The Rare and the Beautiful by Cressida Connolly (HarperPerennial, pounds 7.99) The Garmans, nine strikingly beautiful, 'gifted' siblings, have long fascinated writer Cressida Connolly. The Rare and the Beautiful is […]

The Secrets of Rue St Roch by Janet Morgan (Penguin, pounds 8.99) A good spy story should include plenty of individual heroism and terrible betrayal, but the reality is more […]

Blanketmen by Richard O'Rawe (New Island, pounds 9.99) This personal account of the Maze hunger strike of 1981, in which 10 Republican prisoners died, comes from a man who was […]

Leonardo da Vinci: the Flights of the Mind by Charles Nicholl (Penguin, pounds 9.99) Enough of Leonardo the genius. The famous self-portrait of the aged, bearded seer might stare out […]