For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Frances Wilson

From the May 2025 Issue

All Yesterday’s Parties

From the March 2025 Issue

Changing My Mind

Changing My Mind

By Julian Barnes

From the December 2024 Issue

In Cleanness and in Filth

From the September 2024 Issue

Best of Frenemies

The Virago Book of Friendship

By Rachel Cooke (ed)

From the December 2023 Issue

Minor Miracles

From the August 2023 Issue

To Disturb or Not to Disturb?

From the December 2022 Issue

You Butter My Book…

From the July 2022 Issue

Memoirs, She Wrote

From the December 2021 Issue

Infernal Greetings

From the October 2021 Issue

Battle of the Sexes Resumed

The Heroine with 1,001 Faces

By Maria Tatar

From the August 2021 Issue

Walks Like a Novel, Swims Like a Fish?

From the March 2021 Issue

Monsieur Plum & Mother Rat

Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir

By Marina Warner

From the June 2020 Issue

Murder, He Wrote

From the May 2020 Issue

She Wore It Best

Clothes… and Other Things That Matter

By Alexandra Shulman

From the December 2019 Issue

Fay Weldon Took the Light Bulbs

From the June 2019 Issue

Neo-Pagans at Large

Noble Savages: The Olivier Sisters – Four Lives in Seven Fragments

By Sarah Watling

From the December 2018 Issue

Delights of the Public Catalog Room

From the August 2018 Issue

A Place in the Sun

The Warm South: How the Mediterranean Shaped the British Imagination

By Robert Holland

From the December 2017 Issue

’Twas the Fight before Christmas

From the March 2017 Issue

Fatal Hat-traction

Heartthrobs: A History of Women and Desire

By Carol Dyhouse