Mariella Novotny's part in the Profumo affair was just one episode in a strange and secretive life

French cuisine is in the soup. What is to be done?

The questions posed by the financial crisis remain unanswered

Simon Schama's Story of the Jews may contain some serious omissions, but this haunting history is both captivating and enchanting.

Will the real Angela Merkel please stand up? After reading Stefan Kornelius’s official biography the German Chancellor remains a mystery

Iain Martin's message in his excellent Making it Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the Men Who Blew Up the British Economy is that a proper sense of fear is good for bankers.

In the spin doctor’s memoirs the similarities between Evelyn Waugh’s protagonist Charles Ryder and Gordon Brown’s antagonist Damian McBride are several and eerie

Ian Buruma's Year Zero deftly tells the story of 1945: the year the modern world began