Stoddard Martin

Review: The Hotel Years

Cultural disease diagnostician

Review: Sylvia

How mad? How true?

Review: Three Faces of an Angel

Prague perspective on life, love and death

Review: 10:04

A skilled and singular voice

Review: The Impossible Exile

Glorious literary career that ended in a death pact

Review: Hotel Andromeda

Gently breaking out of notional boxes

Literary treasure houses

We delight in accounts of the astounding work of two devoted bookmen

Pulitzer winner in prize form

Singular South American genius

We absorb the work of a woman who 'looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf'

City reveals hidden gems

An illustrated book about the paintings within the home of london's Lord Mayor is an eye-opener

Stripped of conventional, high-cultural aspirations

A provocative art book speaks of a cultural shift and shows 'gorgeous and disturbing' pictures

Romain Gary: A Tall Story

Packed verbal baggage