For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Claudia FitzHerbert

From the December 2023 Issue

Two’s Company

Twinkind: The Singular Significance of Twins

By William Viney

From the September 2023 Issue

Nuclear Family

Before the Light Fades: A Memoir of Grief and Resistance

By Natasha Walter

From the February 2023 Issue

Family Secrets

Two Sisters

By Blake Morrison

From the August 2022 Issue

Death by Chocolate

Teller of the Unexpected: The Life of Roald Dahl, an Unofficial Biography

By Matthew Dennison

From the July 2022 Issue

Growing Pains

Amy & Lan

By Sadie Jones

From the May 2022 Issue

She Went Down Well with Vicars

I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys

By Miranda Seymour

From the April 2022 Issue

A Rare Bird

Companion Piece

By Ali Smith

From the September 2021 Issue

It Was a Bleak Time

The Turning Point: A Year That Changed Dickens and the World

By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

From the February 2021 Issue

In Sickness & in Verse

Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

By Fiona Sampson

From the November 2017 Issue

Resurrecting Daemons

La Belle Sauvage

By Philip Pullman

From the November 2008 Issue

‘Life is the Only Cure for Life’

The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, Volume 5: 1922

By Katherine Mansfield, (Edited by Vincent O’Sullivan and Margaret Scott)

From the February 2008 Issue

Life in Letters

From the August 2007 Issue

Claudia FitzHerbert meets Philip Pullman