Critical attention this weekend has been wide-ranging, with nine different books receiving a similar number of reviews. Just out in front is The Other by David Guterson (Bloomsbury, 9780747592433, £18.99). The author of Snow Falling on Cedars has returned with his fourth novel, the tale of two friends, one of whom...

The two most reviewed books this week were by doyennes of crime fiction, with both attracting cautious praise from the critics.

P D James' The Private Patient is her 14th Dalgleish novel. Marcel Berlins, writing in the Times, says: "The quality is averagely excellent James, although not among her best three or...

A number of books were well reviewed last weekend, but the collection of letters by Penelope Fitzgerald, So I Have Thought of You, edited by her son-in-law Terence Dooley (Fourth Estate), occupied most column inches.

Reviewers were keen to gain new insight into the life of the late Booker-winning novelist. “In person,...

BBC Radio 4 favourite Jenni Murray was last weekend’s most reviewed, with her Memoirs of a Not So Dutiful Daughter (Bantam Press) dominating the literary review pages. As the presenter of “Woman’s Hour” Murray has a great fanbase and reach, and the publication of her account of the year leading up to her father...