As Margaret Thatcher’s political revolution unfolded, a group of style-obsessed misfits brightened troubled times.

An age of upheaval ​The pioneering “futurists” play the Royal Albert Hall, London ​Between tragedy and farce  ​Overconfident and under-imagined: an extravagant mess of a book Clement Attlee's progressive patriotism  The impossibility of love ​The end of times ​Jeremy Corbyn seems to be trapped in a perpetual adolescence London: a city of secrets and spies  ​A “nearly history” of the 1980s, Britain’s decade of boom, bust and Margaret Thatcher.

How Clive James found his defining subject, the gravest of all.

Juliette Binoche is alluring but impenetrable.

Kazuo Ishiguro’s first novel for a decade is, on one level, a complete surprise.

He has written a self-consciously provocative book, one that demands to be read.

Cuthbertson’s Wilfred Owen is a fan’s biography. It is ardent, dreamy and at times a touch swooning. A writer who self-consciously craves fame and the world's applause, Jonathan Franzen is also simultaneously repelled by it. The Kenneth Branagh/Rob Ashford production of Macbeth for the Manchester International Festival presents an enthralling portrait of sickening, desire-fuelled ambition.

“There never was a good biography of a good novelist,” F Scott Fitzgerald wrote in his notebooks.

Essays on occupying the space in between cultures.

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