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Gaddafi’s last stand

Michael Peel examines three accounts of the sudden unravelling of Muammer Gaddafi’s brutal regime in Libya

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Life on the edge

Katherine Boo’s ‘Behind the Beautiful Forevers’, which shows despair and dreams in an Indian megacity, is as vivid as great fiction

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‘Wolf Hall’: the sequel

Public and private passions colour Hilary Mantel’s new novel ‘Bringing up the Bodies’, a masterful follow-up to her Man Booker prize-winner, writes James Naughtie

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Austerity bites

Paul Krugman’s ‘End this Depression Now!’ has a good case against spending cuts, but proposals on economy revival are modest

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Pitch battles

Jimmy Burns chronicles the bitter rivalry between Real Madrid and Barcelona in this vivid survey of Spanish football

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Thrill in the air

Adam Thorpe’s thriller ‘Flight’ tells the turbulent tale of a freight pilot hunted by killers after getting off a job delivering dodgy goods

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Keep it simple

‘Insanely Simple’, by ad agency executive Ken Segall, tries to explain Apple’s incredible success through one attribute: simplicity itself

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Heavy duty

Liz Moore’s ‘Heft’ is a poignant novel about how an obese, unemployed professor emerges from the solitude of his Brooklyn home

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Secret testimony

Kate Summerscale’s ‘Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace’ treats an adultery case as a detective story that sheds light on Victorian life

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Survival instincts

‘Ignorance’, the new novel by Michèle Roberts, depicts the fate of four women in a French village under Nazi occupation

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