Halfway to Hollywood: Diaries 1980-88 by Michael Palin
Michael Palin's diaries will be a boon to all Monty Python fans, says Caroline Boucher
Douglas Coupland
There is artwork to be seen and an excellent blog with entries on 9/11 and Helvetica plus, finds Johnny Dee
The Secret Lives of Buildings by Edward Hollis
Jonathan Glancey enjoys tracing the stories written in the stones of the world's great edifices
Two-Faced by Mandasue Heller
Heller is the frontrunner in a burgeoning subgenre which might loosely be described as Martina Cole-lite, says Laura Wilson
Stage Directions by Michael Frayn
Frayn's erudition is always displayed to entertaining advantage, writes Victoria Segal
Wuthering Heights; Framed; The Choir
Wuthering Heights should be banned for teenage girls, but ITV1’s adaptation was still savagely good, writes Kathryn Flett
The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
It was a masterstroke in that it redefined the war as a struggle for 'a new birth of freedom', says Phil Mongredien
Manchester United: The Biography by Jim White
Despite a seductive vividness, the necessity of peppering the text with statistics makes for awkward reading, says Jean Hannah Edelstein
Stage Directions by Michael Frayn
An impressive critical eye, if thin on the mechanics behind the storytelling, says Oliver Marre
The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave
The singer's second novel is a frenzy of sex and language - and it shows off his secret tender side as well, says Graeme Thomson
A Strange Eventful History by Michael Holroyd
Holroyd carries off the story as a ripping yarn spiced with melodrama and tinged with pathos, says Judith Rice
Comedy review: This Mitchell And Webb Book, Book
Fourth Estate, £18.99
Freeman Dyson explores the farthest limits of human imagination
In Imagined Worlds, Dyson glimpses a distant future in which humans communicate by radiotelepathy
Venice film festival: The Road
Review: Starring Viggo Mortensen, John Hillcoat's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel is a slice of powerful horror well worth the wait
The Life of Monsieur de Molière by Mikhail Bulgakov
In its playfulness and hybridity, this book looks forward to contemporary 'faction' that fuses fiction and biography, says John Dugdale