Combine Lance Armstrong’s cycling achievements (winning the Tour de France 7 times), his recovery from cancer and a relationship with a musical icon and his life begins to read like a movie. In Lance : the making of the world’s greatest champion John Wilcockson interviews friends and fellow cyclists giving an insight into a unique individual.

The cocktail dress has a long association with glitz and glamour – think Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany. Laird Borrelli-Persson’s book Cocktail dress chronicles its history using a wide range of images including art, photography, advertisement and magazine covers. Turn up the heater and slip into your favourite “little cocktail dress”.

The Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility was opened in 2002 and has been called secretive, inhumane and illegal by some and necessary for the “fight against terror” by others. The least worst place by Karen Greenberg records its first 100 days and how influences from Washington turned a prison into a interrogation centre.

This month’s eclectic mixture of subject matter continues with books on exorcism, American comics, Edward de Bono, Piers Morgan and “green sewing” – something for everyone. Pick your favourite via the Buyer’s Choice Recent Picks.