Proms Podcast

Mrs Woolf and the Servants by Alison Light

The Sunday Times paperback pick of the week reviewed by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann

The Last Godfathers by John Follain

The Sunday Times review by Misha Glenny: the small Sicilian town that spawned an organised-crime clan of exceptional brutality

Tears of the Desert by Halima Bashir and Damien Lewis

The Sunday Times review by Stephen Robinson: a doctor's compelling account of brutal treatment in Darfur

Alpha Dogs by James Harding

The Sunday Times review by Simon Jenkins: the campaign fixers who sold democracy to the world

Children of the Revolution by Robert Gildea

The Sunday Times review by Graham Robb: an exemplary account of a century and more of bloody revolutions

So I Have Thought of You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald edited by Terence Dooley

The Sunday Times review by Hermione Lee: one of Britain's finest post-war writers revealed in her collected correspondence

Fixing Failed States by Ashraf []Ghani and Clare Lockhart

The Sunday Times review by Max Hastings: how the West is failing the world's poorest states

The chequered history of the Olympic Games

Matthew Syed, twice an Olympic athlete himself, recounts his experiences and rounds up the best reading as the Beijing extravaganza draws near

The Kit-Cat Club: Friends Who Imagined a Nation by Ophelia Field

Iain Finlayson's non-fiction reviews for the week of July 26, 2008

Ice Captain: The Life of J. R. Stenhouse , War plc: The Rise of the New Corporate Mercenary and Marrying Anita: A Quest for Love in the New India

Bambi VS Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose and Practice of the Movie Business by David Mamet

Michael X: A Life in Black & White by John Williams

Taste: The Story of Britain Through its Cooking by Kate Colquhoun

Shire Books: a specialist publisher of offbeat and obscure books

Stephen McClarence drops in at an unusual publishing company

Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth and My Manchester United Years by Bobby Charlton

How my life fell apart...bit by bit

In an extract from his memoir, a writer describes how he became broke, depressed and separated from his girlfriend and son

Vermeer's Hat by Timothy Brook

The Sunday Times Review by John Carey: the historical lessons locked inside the great painter's works

At a glances

The Sunday Times reviews by Christopher Hart and Ed King

The Forsaken: From the Great Depression to the Gulags: Hope and Betrayal in Stalin's Russia by Tim Tzouliadis

The Sunday Times review by Orlando Figes: the unwary Americans who signed up for Stalin's Soviet revolution

Street Without a Name by Kapka Kassabova

The Sunday Times review by Cathy Galvin: this brilliantly clever memoir breaks down a Berlin wall of indifference towards Bulgaria

Mrs Woolf and the Servants by Alison Light

The Sunday Times paperback pick of the week reviewed by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann

The Last Godfathers by John Follain

The Sunday Times review by Misha Glenny: the small Sicilian town that spawned an organised-crime clan of exceptional brutality

Tears of the Desert by Halima Bashir and Damien Lewis

The Sunday Times review by Stephen Robinson: a doctor's compelling account of brutal treatment in Darfur