England’s golden boy
A review of ‘Bobby Moore: The Man in Full’, by Matt Dickinson. Moore was born to be England captain
Poems from Going for a Song
An Anthology of Poems about Antiques, compiled and introduced by Bevis Hillier
The bitter Snows of yesteryear
A review of ‘Pamela Hansford Johnson: Her Life, Works and Times’, by Wendy Pollard, which takes this spiky novelist – and her dreadful husband, C.P. Snow – at their own inflated valuation
An intellectual in intelligence
A review of ‘The Secret World’, by Hugh Trevor-Roper. The future Lord Dacre's early work for MI6 shaped the rest of his life
All dressed up – and skirting the subject
A review of ‘Playing to the Gallery: Helping Contemporary Art in its Struggle to be Understood’, by Grayson Perry. Perry’s Reith Lectures asked pertinent questions but didn’t bother with serious answers
Ack-ack guns on the Heath
A review of ‘Slideshow: Memories of a Wartime Childhood’, by Marjorie Ann Watts. It’s at its best when channelling the voice and mind of a child
Talking pictures
A review of ‘Cecil Beaton: Portraits and Profiles’, edited by Hugo Vickers. Katherine Hepburn had ‘rocking horse nostrils’; Mae West was a ‘nice little ape’. The photographer was a natural writer – and snob
Marred entertainment
A review of ‘Head of State’, by Andrew Marr. Fantastical, cumbersome and unentertaining, Marr’s debut suggests he should definitely stick to his day job
Our most popular (and hardworking) living artist
A review of ‘Hockney: The Biography, Volume II’, by Christopher Simon Sykes. He’s got grumpier with old age, but still Hockney retains his youthful curiosity and energy
Mynheer Wouwermans
From the long ride, fresh trees licked by enough blue light to cross-patch antique trousers, we come at last past…
Keep the Booker British
Matthew Walther believes his fellow Americans should be excluded from our famous prize – for the sake of British ‘identity’
Master of alchemy
Martin Gayford talks to a surprisingly jolly Kiefer in advance of a major new Royal Academy retrospective
A Cubist in New York
Plus: new shows of work by Derek Hyatt, Anthony Caro, George Kennethson and Eileen Agar
Bad bad acting
Plus: a new play set in south Wales that overuses Alan Bennett’s trick of forcing laughs by getting senior characters to swear
Douchebags and dartboards
The Royal Opera House made the bigger splash with their opener but the ENO threw the best party - by far
Watch that man
This surreal biopic of the punkish Australian musician is domestic life as Kubrick would have shot it
Long life
I was born in England, and this is where I've lived and worked. But that's not the whole story
