Stryker McGuire: ‘Americans have had a taste of Blair’s feud with Gordon Brown, but they will be struck by Blair’s venom’
Stryker McGuire gives his verdict on Tony Blair's memoir
Tony Blair’s A Journey: Andrew Rawnsley’s verdict
The cliches and pop psychology will make you grimace, but Tony Blair's memoir is also remarkably candid – except when it comes to Iraq, says Andrew Rawnsley
The Cry of the Sloth by Sam Savage
Sam Savage's follow-up to Firmin is an entertaining epistolary satire about a bitter small-time literary editor, says Charlotte Newman
Mao’s Great Famine by Frank Dikötter
The horrors of China's Great Leap Forward are unveiled in a masterly study of the hateful plan, writes Jonathan Fenby
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, David Zane Mairowitz and Catherine Anyango
Conrad's epic Congo tale returns – in graphic and terrifying detail, says Rachel Cooke
Lights Out in Wonderland by DBC Pierre
The Booker-winning author's toxic rant against the excesses of modern capitalism is doomed to heroic failure, says Tim Adams
Tony Blair: He can still make us believe – and then, pages later, feel sick
Amid torrid prose and Tony Blair's moral absolutes are truths and revelations that make A Journey impossible to put down
Crazy Age: Thoughts on Being Old by Jane Miller
In a perceptive, amusing book about growing old, Jane Miller argues that there's more to ageing than frailty and loneliness, says Katharine Whitehorn
The Accident by Ismail Kadare
A mysterious car crash is the trigger for a dark, dreamlike story of love and power, writes Mary Fitzgerald
The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief by VS Naipaul
VS Naipaul is often blinkered but he still sees things in Africa that others miss, says Aminatta Forna
When London Was Capital of America by Julie Flavell
Gaiutra Bahadur enjoys an engaging social history that charts the fortunes of Americans living in London on the eve of the Declaration of Independence
The Undiscovered Country by Julian Mitchell
Julian Mitchell's 1968 novel deals powerfully in ambiguity and doubt, says Anna Winter
The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick
Over a range of recurring themes – the uncertainty of belonging, the inscrutibility of men – Elizabeth Hardwick's fiction shines with wisdom and craft, writes Tim Adams
23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
Ha-Joon Chang offers a masterful debunking of some of the myths of capitalism, writes John Gray
Oil on Water by Helon Habila
A Conradian river journey in search of a kidnap victim uncovers the human cost of the oil industry in Nigeria, writes Rachel Aspden