Books

Mean genius of comedy

Alexander Larman on Happiness and Tears: The Ken Dodd Story by Louis Barfe

Latin hero of love-torn teenagers

Tibor Fischer reviews A Thousand Kisses by Frederic Raphael

Play it both ways, Dmitry

This new biography has set my feet pounding, for once in admiration rather than indignation

The man who wasn’t there

James Kirkup reviews David Cameron’s memoirs

A constant search for heroes

Michael Henderson on Sir Neville Cardus

Might-have-been books

Do I ever regret the books I might have written? Only fleetingly.

The rats and cowards who brought down a Titan

Simon Heffer on the final instalment of Charles Moore’s Thatcher biography and Paul Corthorn’s ‘Enoch Powell’

Scribbler with a gift for women

Tibor Fischer reviews ‘The Cambridge Edition of the Correspondence of Samuel Richardson’

Unusual eminent Victorian

Christopher Fildes reviews a new biography of Walter Bagehot

Smugly bugged by Brexit

Lionel Shriver reviews Ian McEwan’s ‘The Cockroach’