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There isn’t much in common on the face of it between the two big biographies out this week, Andrew Lownie’s Entitled, the double biography of Prince Andrew and his former wife, Sarah, Duchess of York, and Frankly, the memoir of Nicola Sturgeon, the diminutive former Scottish first minister. Nonetheless, one…

Architectural historian who was interested in the broader social and economic influences of buildings

At four million words he beats Pepys, but the daily jottings of a judgmental don fail to transcend his rather stuffy millieu

"It's not being able to put on his uniforms and strut around."

Drawing on private letters and contemporary criticism, Cora Bissett’s imaginative production offers a rounded picture of a complicated man with a colourful love life

"It's telling how many of the sources are either anonymous or dead."

This week's Media Watch takes a look at what Nicola Sturgeon said about the Daily Telegraph and 'Frenchgate' in her new memoir Frankly.

800 writers and publishing workers have signed a statement objecting to the LGBTQ+ book prize’s nomination of Boyne, who described himself as a ‘terf’

Esteemed foreign correspondent Jon Lee Anderson’s new book offers a full accounting of life in Afghanistan from before 9/11 to now