For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
D J Taylor

From the October 2023 Issue

Becoming James Bond

Ian Fleming: The Complete Man

By Nicholas Shakespeare

From the July 2023 Issue

Many Walks of Life

From the April 2023 Issue

Breakfast, Bhuna & Brexit

About England

By David Matless

The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and Its People

By Stuart Maconie

From the August 2022 Issue

From Staffordshire to the Savoy

Arnold Bennett: Lost Icon

By Patrick Donovan

From the April 2022 Issue

Long Lunches & Large Advances

Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World

By John Walsh

From the February 2022 Issue

What Do Critics Know?

From the July 2021 Issue

When the Going was Good

From the May 2021 Issue

Mr & Mrs Toad Revisited

Monica Jones, Philip Larkin and Me: Her Life and Long Loves

By John Sutherland

From the March 2021 Issue

House of Cards

The Crichel Boys: Scenes from England’s Last Literary Salon

By Simon Fenwick

From the November 2020 Issue

Sex, Drugs & Poetry

I Wanna Be Yours

By John Cooper Clarke

From the May 2020 Issue

Why I Won’t Be Writing a Coronavirus Novel

From the March 2020 Issue

Fiction, Feminism & Fake Vicars

A Bite of the Apple: A Life with Books, Writers and Virago

By Lennie Goodings

From the December 2019 Issue

From Socialite to Socialist

Blitz Writing: Night Shift & It Was Different at the Time

By Inez Holden (Edited by Kristin Bluemel)

From the August 2019 Issue

Biographer’s Luck

From the July 1999 Issue

Something to Read in the Evenings

Man and Boy

By Tony Parsons

From the March 2019 Issue

Dusting off the Crystal Ball

From the September 2018 Issue

Piano Man

Love is Blind: The Rapture of Brodie Moncur

By William Boyd

From the July 2018 Issue

Whatever Happened to the Establishment?

From the December 2017 Issue

Author of Himself

From the June 1999 Issue

Old Stench of Death

Close Range

By Annie Proulx