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
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
Book of Clouds by Chloe Aridjis
Justine Jordan on an unusual debut novel that holds the present and past in delicate balance
Once & Then by Morris Gleitzman
Two short novels, dealing with the struggles of Jewish survival under Nazi rule, are brought together in this volume, writes Alexandra Masters
The Wonder by Diana Evans
Ever-changing London sparkles through the prism of dance, says Maya Jaggi
Read all about the end of the world
Once the province of science fiction, global disaster is now the hot subject for mainstream authors, says Robin McKie
Here’s one I read earlier
Tom Parker Bowles's reheated food foray loses out to Norman Tebbit's grouse says Rachel Cooke
Bunny Tales by Izabella St James
An exposé of life in Hugh Hefner's Playboy mansion lifts the lid on the sad, sordid life of a porn baron says Carole Cadwalladr
Leviathan or, The Whale by Philip Hoare
It's a strange, mournful journey, conducted by this man who feared the whales, says Ruaridh Nicoll