Non-fiction Round-up, October 2009

The digested reviews for the most talked-about titles of the past month.

HISTORY

A Gambling Man by Jenny Uglow

Trotsky by Robert Service

The Defence of the Realm: The Authorised History of MI5 by Christopher Andrew

MEMOIR

Get Her Off the Pitch by Lynne Truss

The Plot: A Biography of an English Acre by Madeleine Bunting

TRAVEL

Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalyrymple

The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle by Sara Wheeler

SCIENCE & NATURE

Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham

Terra: Tales of the Earth by Richard Hamblyn

LITERARY STUDIES & CRITICISM

Charles Dickens: A Life Defined by Writing by Michael Slater

Howards End is On the Landing by Susan Hill

ECONOMICS & SOCIETY

Superfreakonomics by Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner

The Squeeze by Tom Bower

What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell

MISC.

How the Beatles Destroyed Rock’n’Roll by Elijah Ward

Click here to see September’s non-fiction round-up.