Books

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

Tibor Fischer reviews A Thousand Kisses by Frederic Raphael

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

James Kirkup reviews David Cameron’s memoirs

Michael Henderson on Sir Neville Cardus

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

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

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

Christopher Fildes reviews a new biography of Walter Bagehot

Lionel Shriver reviews Ian McEwan’s ‘The Cockroach’