'The authors do not shrink from spelling out the scale of the killings when the Rhodesians made long-distance raids on guerrilla camps in Mozambique and Zambia.'

Xan Smiley on how Rhodesia became Zimbabwe.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/what-the-secret-agent-saw

'Thirkell was a product of her time and her class. For her there are no sacred cows, barring those that win ribbons at the Barchester Agricultural.'

The novelist Angela Thirkell is due a revival, says Patricia T O'Conner (£).

https://literaryreview.co.uk/good-gad

'Only in Britain, perhaps, could spy chiefs – conventionally viewed as masters of subterfuge – be so highly regarded as ethical guides.'

https://literaryreview.co.uk/the-spy-who-taught-me