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The enemy within by Boyd, William

“…[...]a new biography shows how profound mental instability shaped his chaotic private life Russian Roulette: The Life and Times of Graham Greene Richard Greene…”
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Rudolph by Leigh, George

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Mass vaccination, an Eton mess, and the Guardian's silence on the Moore affair by Wilby, Peter

“…FIRST THOUGHTS I hesitate to be gloomy, but I can't help thinking of all the ways the plans for mass vaccination against Covid-19 could go wrong. A huge wave…”
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If the events of this pandemic year have taught me anything, it is the virtue of empathy by Tamkin, Emily

“…The only time the pandemic receded from our minds, if briefly, was in the days immediately before and after the presidential election on 3 November. If this…”
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Snow White unleashed by Drake, Kitty

“…Snow White was dancing for the queue with her dwarves, and my mother had interrupted her twice to ask about hot dog toppings. In 1970 the American psychologist…”
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My grandad devoted his career to learning the lessons of Aids. Now we risk forgetting them by Bush, Stephen

“…[...]any culinary recommendations she makes have to be treated with a heavy degree of scepticism until independently verified. [...]I've found myself thinking…”
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Donald Trump is like a twisted Father Christmas: he can make all his lies come true by Iannucci, Armando

“…[...]nothing else can explain why, during the increasingly spurious legal challenges to democracy, high-ranking and presumably intelligent party members such…”
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Art on Zoom, podcast intrigue, plus box sets and quizzes--2020 hasn't been all bad by Hislop, Ian

“…In this version, a familiar rakish, touslehaired politician progresses from journalist to mayor of London to prime minister, ending up with a woman and a baby…”
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What the magpie wants by Macdonald, Helen

“…Soon it stopped, stood on tiptoes, craned its neck and tilted its head to stare at the kitchen floor before trying to enter the house again. When the world…”
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Glorious songs of old by Leszkiewicz, Anna

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Shop-soiled mannequins by Maguire, Kevin

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The hubris of Cummings, British baby Jesus and how to play Have I Got Lewis for You by Lewis, Helen

“…Sample question: according to the Office for National Statistics, how many babies called Jesus were born in England and Wales in 2019? (Answer at the bottom of…”
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His family and other animals by Jamie, Kathleen

“…[...]the young author - like most of his immediate family - is on the autism spectrum, which brings a particular slant to his life and means he was often…”
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Despite the chaos created by the Conservatives, Labour keeps losing. But Starmer wants to win by Collins, Philip

“…First-time Conservatives were the people most likely to switch to Labour next time and the reason they gave, overwhelmingly, was the government's poor handling…”
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Sport has surpassed itself in 2020, providing a space for politics, primal urges--and even optimism by Liew, Jonathan

“…The National Basketball Association decided the only way to salvage the rest of its season would be to lock 22 of its teams into the Walt Disney World resort…”
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Mam Tor by Wilkinson, Ben

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The year of the Great Humbling by Gray, John

“…[...]the lesson of this year is that we must learn to live in a world we cannot fully know or control. To speak of the very idea is nowadays dismissed as…”
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The Mersey messiah by McGovern, Alison

“…[...]as Jürgen Klopp found in June 2019 as he sat on the upper deck of an opentop bus, Champions League trophy in hand, touring Liverpool to packed crowds and…”
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I'm 30, and I've never spent a Christmas away from home before. This year will be the first by Nolan, Megan

“…[...]I can't pretend the decision was purely a noble sacrifice on my part. Dad drops me back into my mam's house, where the rest of the day is spent with the…”
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The pandemic will turn out not to be a great global reset--more a comma rather than a full stop by Cliffe, Jeremy

“…In the background, not of the crisis but marked by it, were the protests on disparate topics in cities around the world and the build-up to the US presidential…”
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