The Discovery of France; The Boy Who Loved Books; A Voyage Round John Mortimer; Wildwood; The Ghost

Mark Sanderson at large in a world of books

Gary Dexter investigates 'Blood Wedding' by Federico Garcia Lorca

at the Complete Review

Jonathan Keates reviews Who Owns Antiquity?: Museums and the Battle Over Our Ancient Heritage by James Cuno

Andrew Martin reviews The Importance of Being Trivial by Mark Mason and Real Men Eat Puffer Fish by Robert Twigger

Alasdair Palmer reviews An Appeal to Reason by Nigel Lawson and Fixing Climate by Robert Kunzig and Wallace Broeke

Susanna Yager reviews crime fiction

Charles Fernyhough reviews Crime by Irvine Welsh

There's an exhibit of portraits by Wyndham Lewis at the National Gallery through 19 October -- and in the Sunday Times Waldemar Januszczak writes about Wyndham Lewis's big mistake, arguing that: 'Yes, he was a fascist sympathiser, but the firebrand

The biography-genre continues to be under attack, as Maurice Chittenden reports in the Sunday Times that Bitchiness breaks out in world of biography. Nudity, too !

In The Hindu Usha K.R. interviews Shashi Deshpande, in Magical terrains.

The Cairo Tahrir Square cafe Naguib Mahfouz used to hang out at has been shuttered, with a fast food joint to open in its place.

Melissa Katsoulis reviews The Return by Victoria Hislop

Jane Shilling reviews Rancid Pansies by James Hamilton-Paterson

Aminatta Forna reviews The Legend of Colton H. Bryant by Alexandra Fuller