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Assad by Con Coughlin, biography review: Syria's butcher
Con Coughlin’s book is meticulously researched and even-handed. It has the vice-like grip of a thriller. Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny is published by Picador at £25.
Bestsellers List Sunday, May 21 - Los Angeles Times The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese (Grove: $32) An epic novel follows three generations of a family in southern India. All About Love by bell hooks (Morrow: $17) The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber (Picador: $25)
A celebration of cycling as bicycles are set to go under hammer in Lichfield Bicycles include vintage Pogliaghi Italcourse, George Longstaff AC Reynolds, Fuji and Pashley bikes such as a ladies Sovereign, Courier models and two Picador tricycles. Spares include Shimano derailleur gears, chainwheel sets, handlebars, lights and reflectors.
MUST READS No Plan B by Lee Child and Andrew Child (Penguin £9.99, 464 pp) Maps Of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer (Picador £9, 448 pp)
MUST READS No Plan B by Lee Child and Andrew Child (Penguin £9.99, 464 pp) Maps Of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer (Picador £9, 448 pp)
Charlotte Mendelson: ‘Susan Cain’s Quiet made me realise I’m a noisy introvert’ Charlotte Mendelson reveals the books that changed her life. The Exhibitionist is published by Picador at £16.99.
The best recent crime and thriller writing – review roundup Emma Flint’s 2016 debut, Little Deaths, was a fictionalisation of the trial of Alice Crimmins, an American waitress whose children went missing from her apartment in Queens, New York. Other Women (Picador) takes another tale of a true crime and reimagines it into a novel. This time, the murder of Emily Beilby Kaye by her married lover, Herbert Patrick Mahon, in April 1924.
The best recent crime and thriller writing – review roundup Emma Flint’s 2016 debut, Little Deaths, was a fictionalisation of the trial of Alice Crimmins, an American waitress whose children went missing from her apartment in Queens, New York. Other Women (Picador) takes another tale of a true crime and reimagines it into a novel. This time, the murder of Emily Beilby Kaye by her married lover, Herbert Patrick Mahon, in April 1924.
LITERARY FICTION Victory City by Salman Rushdie (Vintage £22, 352pp) Aleksandar Hemon’s The World And All That It Holds (Picador £18.99) History Keeps Me Awake At Night by Christy Edwall.
LITERARY FICTION Victory City by Salman Rushdie (Vintage £22, 352pp) Aleksandar Hemon’s The World And All That It Holds (Picador £18.99) History Keeps Me Awake At Night by Christy Edwall.
Love Me Tender by Constance Debré review – sex that obliterates the self Love Me Tender is the story of a mother and her eight-year-old son. When she told her ex-husband, Laurent, that she was a lesbian, he responded by seizing custody of their son. After six months, Constance applies for divorce and joint custody, only to receive a deposition accusing her of incest and paedophilia. Olivia Laing's latest book, Everybody, is published by Picador (£20)
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