Articles from the author

A biography by author’s granddaughter, Ursula Buchan, reveals truth duller than fiction

The story of the spy who masqueraded as the Gestapo’s man in London — and the British plots to help Hitler

The murder of a tabloid editor drives this busy story about political banditry set in 1990s Lima, from the Peruvian Nobel laureate

A tantalising glimpse into what might have been a very different outcome to Hitler’s meeting with Neville Chamberlain in 1938

A fastidious new biography of the Irish poet and playwright delves into letters and a libel trial transcript to give a fuller picture of his life

In contrast to the bleakness of his art, this starry-eyed chronicle shows the painter could be genial, generous and waspishly funny

A double portrait of hidden creativity set in the swinging 1960s London and civil war Spain

The “innocence” of prewar Britain is questionable

Two books on a year of world-changing events, from Khrushchev’s secret speech to the bombing of Martin Luther King’s house