A war reporter’s ‘musical memoir’ seeks a better world amid scenes of horror

Ramachandra Guha’s deeply affecting biography ‘Gandhi’ brings us closer than ever to a complex 20th-century hero

An erudite memoir reveals the secrets behind the discovery of Old Master paintings

A delightful memoir by the fashion photographer about his troublesome, flamboyant boyhood — and a later passion for hats

A New York store owner’s memoir tells wider truths about business in America

A new biography, I Am Dynamite!, beautifully captures the life’s work of the philosopher

A highly original and powerful graphic novel on German history that works on many levels

A journey across the former Ottoman Empire turns into exile for a journalist barred from Turkey

A volume of personal essays that bravely revisit parental alcoholism, underage sex and infertility

Accounts of the two media moguls document the cut and thrust of Tinseltown power games

The freewheeling spirit of the 1960s is recalled in a frank memoir

An unflinching memoir challenges the myths of South Africa’s emergence from apartheid

A new biography promises to change our understanding of Tudor politics

A sketch of Soho’s celebrated drinkers reveals bullies, charlatans and chancers

Tom Wright and Bradley Hope’s Billion Dollar Whale features a cast of hustlers, heads of state and Hollywood stars

The story of one of history’s great economic alchemists holds many lessons for us today

A memoir of an upbringing in an intellectual elite full of clashes and strictures

A family story tells the larger tale of the Soviet century, from Stalin to Putin

Boxing, aggression and a unique quest for the essence of masculinity

A new memoir, ‘The Unpunished Vice’, is a celebration of reading — and proves an education in itself

A memoir of one of the ancestors of punk proves a noisy and self-centred read

This intimate account of suffering has the narrative propulsion of a thriller

John Nathan’s intuitive biography captures the light and the dark of Natsume Soseki

The author on his new memoir, Cheshire and securing an educational legacy

A sparse, poignant essay on mortality, memory and transience