For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
J W M Thompson

From the August 1992 Issue

Taffy Redivivus

Lloyd George

By Chris Wrigley

From the March 1991 Issue

Not So Quaint As It Seems

A Social History of the English Countryside

By G E Mingay

From the October 1986 Issue

What do you print that for?

Sundry Times

By Frank Giles

From the April 2002 Issue

He Took a Prostitute to Meet Queen Victoria

American Scoundrel: Love, War And Politics In Civil War America

By Thomas Keneally

From the June 1996 Issue

Why Did Anyone Wish to Discover the Poles?

I May Be Some Time: Ice and The Imagination

By Francis Spufford

From the April 2003 Issue

‘My Name is A L Rowse…’

The Diaries of A L Rowse

By A L Rowse, Richard Ollard (ed)

From the May 2003 Issue

Thinker, Scientist, Banker, Spy

Elusive Rothschild: The Life of Victor, Third Baron

By Kenneth Rose

From the February 2004 Issue

Arms And Academia

Vixi: Memoirs of a Non-Belonger

By Richard Pipes

From the April 2004 Issue

Travels With My Lover

In Search of a Beginning: My Life with Graham Greene

By Yvonne Cloetta as told to Marie-Françoise Allain (Translated by Euan Cameron)

From the August 2004 Issue

Highly-Strung Hero

Stradivarius: Five Violins One Cello And A Genius

By Toby Faber

From the November 2004 Issue

A Nation Writes

Our Hidden Lives: The Everyday Diaries of a Forgotten Britain 1945-1948

By Simon Garfield (ed)

From the December 2004 Issue

Across-The-Pond Life

Letters from America: 1946-2004

By Alistair Cooke

From the March 2010 Issue

The Writing Gene

Did You Really Shoot The Television? A Family Fable

By Max Hastings

From the October 2009 Issue

‘I Whirl Aimlessly’

Climbing the Bookshelves: The Autobiography

By Shirley Williams

From the July 2009 Issue

Reticence & Rectitude

Attlee’s Great Contemporaries: The Politics of Character

By Frank Field (ed)

From the September 2008 Issue

What the Sovereign Saw

Our Times: The Age of Elizabeth II

By A N Wilson

From the August 2007 Issue

A Restoration Rogue

The Plot Against Pepys

By James Long and Ben Long

From the April 2007 Issue

At Daggers Drawn

Friendship and Betrayal

By Graham Stewart

From the February 2007 Issue

From Hon To Rebel

Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford

By Peter Y Sussman (ed)

From the February 2013 Issue

Unparliamentary Behaviour

An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo

By Richard Davenport-Hines