Prizeman Who Still Glitters
At 84, Frederic Raphael writes with the freshness and vigour of a young man starting out
Caught In The Web
Why is security online so hard to achieve? Edward Lucas's Cyberphobia argues that we are more at risk online than we realise
Israel’s Impish Ice-Breaker
Etgar Keret's memoir The Seven Good Years is mellow but full of deadpan humour about life's absurdities
From Octavian To Augustus
Jochen Bleichen's biography of the Emperor is monumental but highly readable
Poetic Justice
Opal Sunset: Selected Poems 1958-2008 and The Revolt of the Pendulum: Essays 2005-2008 by Clive James
The Fog of War Lifts on Waterloo
Two new and remarkable books prove how Waterloo will continue to divide historians for centuries
Two Men Who Mean Business
The economics ideas of two successful entrepeneurs — one Tory, one Labour
Kind Hearts And Couplets
Two poets show that fierce emotion is not restricted by rhyme or meter
A Master, But Not His Masterpiece
Mario Vargas Llosa's latest novel is an entertaining tale of blackmail and family warfare — but is not up to the standard of his best
Washington Blame Game
Was the journalist Judith Miller's bad intelligence to blame for the 2003 invasion of Iraq?
Unturbulent Priest
The memoirs of Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor
Hard Lessons of Afghan History
Two new histories of separate conflicts in Afghanistan show that both the Victorians and a young Churchill struggled at the North-Western Frontier