Player One by Douglas Coupland – review
Douglas Coupland's tale of four strangers, holed up in an airport cocktail lounge while the world around them crumbles, has an odd tenderness, says Stephanie Merritt
Frank: The Making of a Legend by James Kaplan – review
James Kaplan's life of Frank Sinatra is both entertaining and diligent, writes Luke Jennings
The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life by Bettany Hughes – review
Bettany Hughes strives too hard to make the philosopher 'relevant' in this otherwise entertaining biography, writes Tom Holland
Oblivion: A memoir by Hector Abad Faciolince – review
Hector Abad's tribute to his father, 'the communist doctor' murdered by Colombian paramilitaries in 1987, is warm, witty and moving, writes Julius Purcell
Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt by Robert Gottlieb – review
Sarah Bernhardt and her champagne-drinking alligator were more than a match for today's celebrities, writes Olivia Laing
The Life of an Unknown Man by Andreï Makine – review
Andreï Makine's melancholic romance is also a history of 20th-century Russia, writes Viv Groskop
The Eternal City by Kathleen Graber – review
Kathleen Graber's superb second collection of poems grapples with big questions and the commonplace, writes Kate Kellaway
Talking to the Enemy by Scott Atran – review
Rather than being brainwashed by militant recruiters, terrorists tend to be ordinary people driven by their peer group, argues anthropologist Scott Atran. By Jason Burke
A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain by Owen Hatherley – review
Andy Beckett applauds an angry, crusading book about urban landscapes
Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan by DR Thorpe – review
The winds of change have certainly blown through British politics. By David Kynaston
A Clockwork Orange – review
Although their fruity Nadsat slang gives this production of A Clockwork Orange a Jacobean flourish, Alex and his droogs have all the menace of a gang of Russell Brands, writes Mark Fisher
A World Without Ice by Henry Pollack – review
'Ice asks no questions ... reads no newspapers, listens to no debates. It is not burdened by ideology', writes Henry Pollack in this call to arms on climate change
London film festival – review
Mulligan and Knightley provide glamour galore, while everyone's favourite Swedish vampire movie is eclipsed, says Jason Solomons
Getting Our Way by Christopher Meyer – review
Jeremy Black enjoys Christopher Meyer's enjoyable romp through nine key moments in British diplomacy
Map of a Nation by Rachel Hewitt – review
An absorbing history of the Ordnance Survey charts the many hurdles map-makers have had to overcome, says Ian Thomson