Why did I survive while all of my friends died?
Ten years after the Srebrenica massacre, Emir Suljagic's painful and beautiful account of the siege, Postcards from the Grave, is the first from a Bosnian, says Tim Judah.
Deperately funny
Graham Sharpe's The Man Who Was Screaming Lord Sutch casts light on the demons of the man who made general elections enjoyable, says Simon Callow.
The radical’s radical
Richard Ingrams celebrates the tempestuous life of a 19th-century contrarian in The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett.
Boy, what a life
Jay Parini enjoys Augusten Burroughs's collection of personal essays, Magical Thinking.
Sense and sensuality
Victoria Glendinning enjoys Sybille Bedford's reminiscences in Quicksands.
The original Lord Gnome
Blake Morrison enjoys Richard Ingrams's The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett, a lifelong radical who might even have inspired a 19th-century Private Eye.
When rape was a spoil of war
Simon Garfield is gripped by A Woman in Berlin, an anonymous diary that details chillingly and graphically the final, vengeful days of the Third Reich.
Nonagenarian nonpareil
The great Sybille Bedford continues to enchant as she revisits her youth in Quicksands, says Andrew Barrow.
Mr Cubism in the round
Alex Danchev's frisky biography of Georges Braque puts the fun back into Cubism, says Peter Conrad.
Snake charmer
Kevin Rushby finds plenty of wit but not much grit in Will Randall's account of teaching in Africa, Botswana Time.
Not so jolly hockey sticks
Ian Sansom enjoys Julie Myerson's memoir of an unhappy life of gym and PE, Not a Games Person.
What a clever Dick
Sean O'Hagan follows Emmanuel Carrère's journey into the strange world of Philip K Dick, I'm Alive and You Are Dead.
When polio stalked the land
Patrick Cockburn exposes the errors and horrors of a needless epidemic in The Broken Boy.
Bring on the bicarb
Leo Hickman tells the story of his ethical living experiment in A Life Stripped Bare.
Giving it large
Judith Moore's honesty in Fat Girl is admirable, despite the awful taste it leaves in the mouth, says Kim Bunce.