For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Francis King

From the August 2004 Issue

Cosmopolis

Alexandria: City of Memory

By Michael Haag

From the September 2004 Issue

Make It Short

From the October 2004 Issue

Why the Welsh Went to Mexico

The Zigzag Way

By Anita Desai

From the November 2004 Issue

Judge And Be Judged

Old Filth

By Jane Gardam

From the December 2004 Issue

A Guilesome Girl

Mistress of the Elgin Marbles: A Biography of Mary Nisbet, Countess of Elgin

By Susan Nagel

From the June 2011 Issue

Dressed To Kill

The Girl in the Polka Dot Dress

By Beryl Bainbridge

From the July 2010 Issue

Winning the Jackpot

Inheritance

By Nicholas Shakespeare

From the March 2009 Issue

No Man Is An Island

A Fork in the Road

By André Brink

From the September 2009 Issue

The Agony of Alzheimer’s

The Wilderness

By Samantha Harvey

From the July 2009 Issue

Dr. Blanchisseur

Adam Gould

By Julia O’Faolain

From the February 2009 Issue

Killers & Coronets

Second Thoughts

By Brian Masters

From the December 2008 Issue

Only Connect

Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love

By Sheila Rowbotham

From the November 2008 Issue

Snubs & Slights

Black Orchids

By Gillian Slovo

From the July 2008 Issue

Seeking Grace

Towards Another Summer

By Janet Frame

From the August 2008 Issue

Late Flowering

So I Have Thought of You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald

By Terence Dooley (ed) (With a preface by A S Byatt)

From the October 2008 Issue

Wither the Wether?

The Pages

By Murray Bail

From the May 2008 Issue

Canine Comforts

Dog Years: A Memoir

By Mark Doty

From the June 2008 Issue

Hankering For Home

The Lost Dog

By Michelle de Kretser

From the April 2008 Issue

The Boy Who Didn’t Fit

Pilcrow

By Adam Mars-Jones

From the March 2008 Issue

Kully’s Story

Child of All Nations

By Irmgard Keun (Translated by Michael Hofmann)