Four books in this very popular Journeys series.

Sadakat Kadri reviews A History of Political Trials: from Charles I to Saddam Hussein by John Laughland

Kate Colquhoun reviews D H Lawrence and Frieda by Michael Squires and Uncommon Arrangements by Katie Roiphe

Andy Miller reviews On Some Faraway Beach by David Sheppard

Damian Thompson reviews Letters from a Life: the Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten Vol 4, 1952-1957 ed Philip Reed, Mervyn Cooke and Donald Mitchell

The Lodger; The Stone Gods; The Rain Before it Falls; Last Stop Salina Cruz; Wildwood; Granta Book of the American Short Story, vol 2; The Uncommon Reader

Have the novels on the Best of the Booker shortlist retained their freshness? James Walton finds out

Alex Clark will have a double Proust to go, please, and no cake...

Jeremy Lewis reviews The Seven Lives of John Murray by Humphrey Carpenter

Peter Parker reviews Julian Maclaren-Ross: Selected Letters ed by Paul Willetts

Mark Thwaite reviews Journey To Nowhere: One Woman Looks for the Promised Land by Eva Figes

Lionel Shriver reviews Scottsboro by Ellen Feldman

Kasia Boddy reviews The Diary of 'Helena Morley' by Elizabeth Bishop

The most recent addition to the complete review is our review of Guillermo Martinez's Regarding Roderer.

A.N.Wilson is still obsessing over Virgil's Aeneid, and now offers a column in The Telegraph comparing three recent translations.

Diane Purkiss reviews Becoming Drusilla by Richard Beard

Sam Leith looks forward to the Ways With Words Festival at Dartington Hall, Devon.

Frances Wilson reviews We Danced All Night by Martin Pugh

Jeremy Jehu reviews historical crime

John Campbell reviews We Danced All Night by Martin Pugh