‘Almost everything to do with George Michael pointed back to his father’
James Gavin's new biography of the troubled star shifts blame away from the tabloids and onto the strict father whose approval he craved
James Gavin's new biography of the troubled star shifts blame away from the tabloids and onto the strict father whose approval he craved
The last Governor's humour shines through his diary of negotiating the 1997 Hong Kong handover – even when China nicknamed him ‘prostitute’
Estelle Paranque's Blood, Fire and Gold compares the two women who dominated 16th-century Europe: Elizabeth I and the widowed French queen
Stand-up comedian Pope Lonergan's I’ll Die After Bingo is an unsanitised, hilarious, blistering memoir of his time looking after the elderly
From HRT to midlife libido renaissance, I savoured each sentence of Christie Watson's Quilt on Fire as if it had been written just for me
Catherine Pepinster's fascinating new book Defenders of the Faith sheds light on the religious history of royal coronations
The 89-year-old actress rages against Brexit but also says 'I want my village back' when developers impinge on her French holiday home
The Silver Waterfall by Brendan Simms and Steven McGregor is the best account yet of the Japanese fleet's humiliation, 100 years ago
With Diana: Her True Story in 1992, Andrew Morton is the biographer who has caused the Queen the most pain. 30 years on, he is making amends
Jake Adelstein spent 12 years uncovering the brutality and corruption of Japan’s crime lords – at great personal cost. Is he safe now?
As an unhappy schoolgirl, the future Hollywood star decided to turn herself into 'the best alcoholic a girl can be'
Howard Sounes's new book This Woman investigates how Hindley seduced a former nun in jail. But is it just a distraction from her crimes?
In her new book Buried, TV archaeologist Alice Roberts investigates Bury's decapitated dead – and other murky tales of medieval Britain
Vic Gatrell’s compelling study of treason tells the story of how 25 would-be Robespierres tried to slaughter the country’s top politicians
Fearing for his life, tormented by sex: the great philosopher bares his soul in his diaries, finally decoded and translated after 100 years
Atoms and Ashes, the new book from Chernobyl author Serhii Plokhy, delves into the disasters that have made the world fear nuclear energy
Thousands of would-be Wintours will study Amy Odell's new biography, Anna, to solve the mystery of how she got to the top – and stayed there
The Queen’s self-effacing first cousin becomes the first royal to publish a memoir about her reign – months before Harry's version is due
Jules Montague’s The Imaginary Patient exposes how diagnoses have been used to cover up medical mistakes or persecute healthy people
His new book confronts the Covid conspiracy theories and sets out a wishlist to make the world safer – but becomes meaninglessly ambitious