'The bar is set high at the outset, and readers are primed to wonder if Mikhail can make his case.'

Does Alan Mikhail's new life of the Sultan Selim I really overturn 'shibboleths that have held sway for a millennium'? Caroline Finkel investigates.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/master-of-the-universe-3

'Shopkeepers even cut out their names from shop paper bags and pasted them onto their books’ endpapers to feign wealth and gain cultural capital, as seen in a book owned by William Straw, a grocer.'

@laurenohagan91 on the Edwardian bookplate fashion.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/stepping-up-to-the-bookplate