For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Jeremy Lewis

From the July 2006 Issue

Hopping the Fence

From the May 2006 Issue

What Adam Told Eve

The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes

By John Gross (ed)

From the October 2005 Issue

Setting Down His Pen

The Milk of Paradise: Diaries, 1993–1997

By James Lees-Milne (Edited by Michael Bloch)

From the July 2005 Issue

Swigging and Snogging as the Bombs Rain Down

Party in the Blitz: The English Years

By Elias Canetti

From the May 2014 Issue

Paddy Power

The Ariadne Objective: Patrick Leigh Fermor and the Underground War to Rescue Crete from the Nazis

By Wes Davis

From the February 2005 Issue

Whose Life is it Anyway?

From the April 2005 Issue

Not the Men They Were

From the November 2012 Issue

A Latter-Day Byron

Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure

By Artemis Cooper

From the April 2014 Issue

Reviewing the Situation

The Unexpected Professor: An Oxford Life in Books

By John Carey

From the July 2013 Issue

Fleeing the Nest

This Boy

By Alan Johnson

Self-Portrait as a Young Man

By Roy Strong

How to Live to Be 22

By Keith Waterhouse

From the September 2013 Issue

The Final Leg

The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos

By Patrick Leigh Fermor (Edited by Colin Thubron & Artemis Cooper)

From the December 2013 Issue

Socialites on Parade

Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France

By Nicholas Shakespeare

The Girl from Station X: My Mother’s Unknown Life

By Elisa Segrave

From the November 2013 Issue

Observation Posts

There and Then: Personal Terms 6

By Frederic Raphael