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Bella Mackie’s champagne satires

In the novelist’s bestselling whodunnits, her own North London set are just as awful as the callous mega-rich.

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In Intermezzo, the Irish writer swaps polished wit and graphic sex for something deeper, messier and more mature.

By Lola Seaton

The government wants to reset its relationship with organised labour – but history shows this won’t be an easy task.

By Robert Colls

A new biography by AN Wilson shows how the playwright, poet, scientist and statesman poured himself into his greatest work.

By John Banville

Also featuring Warsaw Tales by Antonia Lloyd Jones and Emperor of the Seas by Jack Weatherford.

By Michael Prodger, Zuzanna Lachendro, George Monaghan and Nicholas Harris

Sue Prideaux’s biography of the unruly French painter shows his story was more complicated than that of colonial seducer.

By Michael Prodger

In his groundbreaking book, the star of New Journalism “put the reader into the eye sockets” of an LSD-fuelled 1960s…

By Geoff Dyer

His vainglorious $44bn takeover backfired on investors, employees, users – and the world’s richest man himself.

By Will Dunn