For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Hugh Massingberd

From the October 2000 Issue

Now We Can Know

Deep Romantic Chasm: Diaries 1979–1981

By James Lees-Milne (Edited by Michael Bloch)

From the March 1997 Issue

Owners Move Back

The Fall and Rise of the Stately Homes

By Peter Mandler

From the May 1984 Issue

A Diverting Read

The Men Who Would Be King

By Nicholas Shakespeare

From the August 2007 Issue

Sweet and Sour

Princess Margaret: A Life Unravelled

By Tim Heald

From the July 2007 Issue

Bounty Bar Bates

Otherwise Engaged: The Life of Alan Bates

By Donald Spoto

From the June 2007 Issue

This Green Plot

The Park: The Story of the Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park

By David Conville

From the March 2007 Issue

Woggles and Wolfcubs

Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium

By Robert Baden-Powell, Edited by Mario Sica

From the October 2006 Issue

‘VVSITPQ’

Last Curtsey: The End of the English Debutante

By Fiona MacCarthy

From the September 2006 Issue

O Father, Where Art Thou?

Right Royal Bastards: The Fruits of Passion

By Peter Beauclerk-Dewar and Roger S Powell

From the April 2006 Issue

The Legion that Never was ‘Listed

Penguins Stopped Play: Eleven Village Cricketers Take On the World

By Harry Thompson

From the February 2006 Issue

The Revered Reviewer

Some Poets, Artists and ‘A Reference for Mellors’

By Anthony Powell