For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Freya Johnston

From the November 2024 Issue

Oratorio of Oratorios

Every Valley: The Story of Handel’s Messiah

By Charles King

From the May 2023 Issue

She Bamboozled Lord Byron

Lady Caroline Lamb: A Free Spirit

By Antonia Fraser

From the December 2022 Issue

Prince of Caricatura

James Gillray: A Revolution in Satire

By Tim Clayton

From the August 2022 Issue

Mother & Author

Look! We Have Come Through! Living with Lawrence

By Lara Feigel

From the April 2022 Issue

Radical Yet Reasonable

Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age

By Daisy Hay

From the February 2022 Issue

Squalor & Sublimity

The Georgians: The Deeds and Misdeeds of 18th-Century Britain

By Penelope J Corfield

From the June 2021 Issue

A Writer’s Revenge

The Poet and the Publisher: The Case of Alexander Pope, Esq., of Twickenham versus Edmund Curll, Bookseller in Grub Street

By Pat Rogers

From the October 2020 Issue

We are Family

The Good Sharps: The Brothers and Sisters Who Remade Their World

By Hester Grant

From the April 2020 Issue

Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Dogs

The Fall of the House of Byron: Scandal and Seduction in Georgian England

By Emily Brand

From the November 2016 Issue

Revolting Mind

Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel

By John Stubbs

From the June 2015 Issue

The Son He Never Had

The Fortunes of Francis Barber: The True Story of the Jamaican Slave Who Became Samuel Johnson’s Heir

By Michael Bundock

From the September 2009 Issue

What The Doctor Ordered

Samuel Johnson: A Life

By David Nokes

From the November 2012 Issue

Two Inches of Ivory

What Matters in Jane Austen? Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved

By John Mullan

Jane Austen’s Cults and Cultures

By Claudia L Johnson