Anna Reid

‘Things only ever got worse’

Second-Hand Time: The Last of Soviets

By Svetlana Alexievich (Translated by Bela Shayevich)

Christopher Hitchens

Dead Men on Leave

Record of a Life

By George Lukács

Bernard O'Donoghue

His Master’s Voice

Collected Poems

By Michael Donaghy (With an introduction by Sean O’Brien)

The Shape of the Dance: Essays, Interviews and Digressions

By Michael Donaghy (Edited by Adam O’Riordan and Maddy Paxman, with an introduction by Clive James)

Jonathan Mirsky

Sore Feet, Heavenly Eyes

China Witness: Voices from a Silent Generation

By Xinran (Translated by Esther Tyldesley, Nicky Harman and Julia Lovell)

M R D Foot

In Daily Peril

Forgotten Voices of the Secret War: An Inside History of Special Operations During the Second World War

By Roderick Bailey (ed)

Kevin Jackson

Conversations on a Concrete Island

Extreme Metaphors: Interviews with J G Ballard, 1967–2008

By Edited by Simon Sellars & Dan O’Hara