For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Adrian Tinniswood

Adrian Tinniswood is a native of Derby in the UK. Born in 1954, his career has combined work with heritage institutions such as the National Trust and the Heritage Lottery Fund with lecturing for English and American universities, including Bristol, Oxford, Nebraska-Lincoln and UC Berkeley. He is the author of twelve books on architectural and social history and is well-known as an author, lecturer and broadcaster in Britain and America.

From the August 2021 Issue

Purple Prose

The World According to Colour: A Cultural History

By James Fox

From the May 2021 Issue

With This Ring I Thee Possess

Inheritance: The Lost History of Mary Davies

By Leo Hollis

From the February 2021 Issue

So Many Little Worlds

London and the 17th Century: The Making of the World’s Greatest City

By Margarette Lincoln

From the November 2020 Issue

True to Type

The Paper Chase: The Printer, the Spymaster, and the Hunt for the Rebel Pamphleteers

By Joseph Hone

From the April 2020 Issue

Where the Houses Have No Names

The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power

By Deirdre Mask

From the February 2020 Issue

Doing the Lord’s Work

Providence Lost: The Rise & Fall of Cromwell’s Protectorate

By Paul Lay

From the August 2018 Issue

Hour of the She-Intelligencer

Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain

By Nadine Akkerman

From the July 2018 Issue

Death Became Him

White King: Charles I – Traitor, Murderer, Martyr

By Leanda de Lisle

From the June 2018 Issue

If Walls Could Talk

Rooms of Their Own

By Nino Strachey

From the March 2018 Issue

Not a Straight Line in Sight

Baroque Between the Wars: Alternative Style in the Arts, 1918–1939

By Jane Stevenson

From the April 2017 Issue

Grand Designs

The English Conquest of Jamaica: Oliver Cromwell's Bid for Empire

By Carla Gardina Pestana

Oliver Cromwell: England's Protector

By David Horspool

From the February 2017 Issue

Roads Less Travelled

The Nine Lives of John Ogilby: Britain’s Master Map Maker and His Secrets

By Alan Ereira

From the October 2016 Issue

Charlie’s Angels

Royal Renegades: The Children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars

By Linda Porter

From the April 2016 Issue

Reason’s Season

The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind

By A C Grayling

From the August 2015 Issue

To the Wild Coast

Willoughbyland: England’s Lost Colony

By Matthew Parker

From the September 2014 Issue

Imperfect Enjoyment

Blazing Star: The Life and Times of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

By Alexander Larman

From the April 2011 Issue

Up and Under

London Under

By Peter Ackroyd

The Stones of London: A History in Twelve Buildings

By Leo Hollis

From the February 2011 Issue

Dipping Their Quills

Reprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil War

By John Stubbs

From the April 2010 Issue

Cooking Things Up

The Royal Stuarts: A History of the Family That Shaped Britain

By Allan Massie

From the November 2009 Issue

A Heroic Part

A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration

By Jenny Uglow