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Valkyrie by Philipp Von Boeselager; Germans Against Hitler by Hans Mommsen; Luck of the Devil by Ian Kershaw

The Sunday Times review by Laurence Rees

On Kindness by Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor

The Sunday Times review by Ed King: a challenging exploration of the idea of kindness

Bad Vibes: Britpop and My Part in Its Downfall by Luke Haines

The Sunday Times review by Robert Sandall: so ahead of his time, he missed the Britpop boat

Fidel & Che by Simon Reid-Henry

The Sunday Times review by Ian Thomson: an absorbing account of the comradeship between two very different revolutionaries

Six-legged Soldiers by Jeffrey A Lockwood

The Sunday Times review by Max Hastings: from Napoleon's Grand Army to the second world war, fleas have played a critical role in the...

Rimbaud by Edmund White

The Sunday Times review by Kevin Jackson: brutish, drunk and ungrateful, Rimbaud rewrote the rules of poetry before he was even 20

Taking the Medicine by Druin Burch

The Sunday Times review by Bee Wilson: a lively history of medicine makes a worrying but verifiable point: the healing profession has, on...

The Rescue Man by Anthony Quinn

The Sunday Times review by Nick Rennison: Anthony Quinn's story of an architectural historian in the wartime city brings the Blitz subtly to...

From Genocide to Continental War by Gerard Prunier

The Sunday Times review by RW Johnson: this outstanding account of the war in central Africa traces the start of a continent-wide conflict that...

The Holy City by Patrick McCabe

The Sunday Times review by Tom Deveson: why, wonders our reviewer, does McCabe borrow so much from the immeasurably greater James Joyce?

Desperate Romantic by Franny Moyle

The Pre-Raphaelite's female icons were, on the whole, a sad mess

Land of Marvels by Barry Unsworth

The Sunday Times review by Peter Parker: In his latest novel, Barry Unsworth weaves archeology and personal politics into a Mesopotamian...

No Time to Think: The Menace of Media Speed and the 24-Hour News Cycle by Howard Rosenberg and Charles S. Feldman

The Times review by Libby Purves

Paperback - Servants of the Supernatural: The Night Side of the Victorian Mind by Antonio Melechi

The Times review by Ross Leckie

Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel by Edmund White

The Times review by Peter Ackroyd

Kate Saunders' fiction reviews of the week: January 3, 2009

Paperback - The Second Plane by Martin Amis

The Times review by Ross Leckie

Paperback - Friday Nights by Joanna Trollope

The Times review by Christina Koning

Paperback - Something to Tell You by Hanif Kureishi

The Times review by Christina Koning

The Hidden by Tobias Hill

The Times review by Tom Adair