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• Being Mortal: Medicine & What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande – review

  22 Oct 2014: We have exalted longevity over what makes life worth living. GP Gavin Francis salutes a moving exploration of illness and death

• Common People review – family history as a new genre of non-fiction

  19 Oct 2014: This book offers a different take on genealogy: part detective story, part Dickensian saga, part social history, writes Ben Highmore

• Shaun Usher: Lists of Note review – providing a sense of purpose

  12 Oct 2014: Lists sound prosaic, but what they reveal about their authors’ everyday lives is intriguing, writes Ben East

• Women in Clothes review – what your clothes say about you

  12 Oct 2014: Hundreds of women analyse their personal style choices, writes Hermione Hoby

• The Rich: From Slaves to Super Yachts review – a witty, readable and informative history

  6 Oct 2014: Kwasi Kwarteng enjoys John Kampfner’s sweeping, salutary survey of the wealthy down the ages

• Adventures in Stationery: A Journey Through Your Pencil Case review – the final word in pens and paperclips

  5 Oct 2014: James Ward explores the enduring appeal of stationery in this entertaining history of the stuff on our desks, writes Andrew Martin

• Ten objects that made modern Germany

  26 Sep 2014:

  To mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and ahead of a British Museum exhibition, Neil MacGregor chooses the icons that shaped the memories of the new nation

• Hand to Mouth review – Linda Tirado's howl of protest about plight of the poor

  24 Sep 2014:

  Poverty means bad jobs, bad credit and bad housing – but even worse is the assumption you aren't trying hard enough, as Tirado's angry, coruscating memoir proves, writes Emma Brockes

• This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate review – Naomi Klein’s powerful and urgent polemic

  22 Sep 2014: Naomi Klein pins the blame for climate crisis squarely on capitalism. John Gray fears the problem is much bigger

• Women in Dark Times review – a wilfully obtuse feminist study

  21 Sep 2014: Rachel Cooke: Jacqueline Rose wants her book to be a clarion call for a new feminism. But it is long-winded, precious and paradoxical

• The Life of a Banana by PP Wong – review

  19 Sep 2014: A moving and optimistic debut about orphaned siblings coping with a new strict home and racial bulling, writes Claire Hazelton

• Modernity Britain: A Shake of the Dice review – how the 60s revolution was a long time starting

  14 Sep 2014: David Kynaston’s engaging study shows early 1960s Britain to have been far more reactionary than radical, writes Lara Feigel

• How to Speak Money review – John Lanchester on the language of lucre

  14 Sep 2014: John Lanchester’s study of financial jargon tackles the Laffer Curve and Vix Index with Johnsonian attention and wit, writes Tim Adams

• The Culinary Imagination review – a survey of food in western culture that doesn't quite cut the mustard

  14 Sep 2014: Food's role in sin and sacrament are explored in Sandra Gilbert's all-you-can-think buffet, writes Julian Baggini

• City of Lies: Love, Sex, Death and the Search for Truth in Tehran by Ramita Navai – review

  11 Sep 2014: In few other places is the gulf so wide between what is said and what is done, writes James Buchan

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