To the lighthouse

Roni Horn's latest work, a converted library made of ice and water, is the culmination of her relationship with the solitary landscape of Iceland. Gordon Burn braves the elements.

There’s just one Boss in this family

Sarfraz Manzoor's Greetings From Bury Park is a hymn to his late father and to the other great hero in his life - Bruce Springsteen, says Danny Kelly.

Marvels of the holy hour

Margaret Busby is fascinated by Wole Soyinka's witty, dramatic account of his life, You Must Set Forth at Dawn.

The female captive

Linda Colley's The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh is an enthralling life of one of the 18th-century's most extraordinary women, says Claire Tomalin.

The human factor

Antony Gormley's figures stand in glorious solitude on London rooftops, while visitors to his new show find themselves lost in his room of fog. Yet despite this sense of isolation, his art is all about belonging, argues Hugh Brody.

Here be monsters

Josh Lacey enjoys the smallholding memoir Our House, in which Rosie Boycott takes on a cheese-eating pig - and Tesco.

The trembling air

Don LeLillo struggles to avoid set pieces in his 9/11 tale Falling Man. Luckily, says Toby Litt, he succumbs.

Slaughter of innocence

Uzodinma Iweala is impressed by Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone, the vivid testimony of a former boy soldier in Sierra Leone.

Brown’s bravehearts

Philip Gould is inspired by Gordon Brown's account of eight brave lives, Courage.

Shock and gore

Salvador Dalí was the greatest painter of the 20th century - but his disturbing films belong to the 21st, writes JG Ballard.