For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Fergus Fleming

From the June 2020 Issue

Home of the Six-Foot Penguin

Land of Wondrous Cold: The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of Its Ice

By Gillen D’Arcy Wood

From the April 2018 Issue

Planning Permission Pending

Phantom Architecture

By Philip Wilkinson

From the July 2017 Issue

Northern Highlights

Highland Retreats: The Architecture and Interiors of Scotland's Romantic North

By Mary Miers

From the December 2016 Issue

All Over the Poyais

The Phantom Atlas: The Greater Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps

By Edward Brooke-Hitching

From the July 2003 Issue

Touching The Void

The Ice

By Stephen J Pyne

From the November 2014 Issue

Best Foot Forward

Flaws in the Ice: In Search of Douglas Mawson

By David Day

From the July 2011 Issue

Peake’s Progress

By Mervyn Peake

From the August 2010 Issue

England Made Them

Shades of Greene: One Generation of an English Family

By Jeremy Lewis

From the October 2009 Issue

Northern Delights

The Magnetic North

By Sara Wheeler

From the September 2008 Issue

Footloose

Racing with Death: Douglas Mawson – Antarctic Explorer

By Beau Riffenburgh

From the October 2006 Issue

In Shackleton’s Shadow

The Lost Men

By Kelly Tyler-Lewis

From the November 2005 Issue

The World’s Most Famous Failure

Scott of the Antarctic

By David Crane

Journals: Captain Scott’s Last Expedition

By Max Jones (ed)