For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Leslie Mitchell

From the November 2007 Issue

A Gentleman In Politics

Balfour: The Last Grandee

By R J Q Adams

From the September 2007 Issue

Derby’s Days

The Forgotten Prime Minister: The 14th Earl of Derby (Volume I: Ascent, 1799–1851)

By Angus Hawkins

From the July 2014 Issue

Many Rights Make a Wrong

The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence

By David Bromwich

From the June 2007 Issue

High Politics

Robert Peel: A Biography

By Douglas Hurd

From the February 2007 Issue

Every Man Has His Price

The Great Man, Sir Robert Walpole: Scoundrel, Genius and Britain’s First Prime Minister

By Edward Pearce

From the February 2006 Issue

Cautionary Tales

A Royal Affair: George III and His Troublesome Siblings

By Stella Tillyard

From the December 2011 Issue

He Loathed the Colour Green

Enigma: A New Life of Charles Stewart Parnell

By Paul Bew

From the April 2012 Issue

Capital Gains

London in the Eighteenth Century: A Great and Monstrous Thing

By Jerry White

From the May 2012 Issue

Killer in the Commons

Why Spencer Perceval Had to Die: The Assassination of a British Prime Minister

By Andro Linklater

From the September 2012 Issue

Men of Their Time

Macaulay and Son: Architects of Imperial Britain

By Catherine Hall

From the February 2014 Issue

Wit & Whiggery

One Hundred Letters from Hugh Trevor-Roper

By Richard Davenport-Hines & Adam Sisman (edd)

From the July 2013 Issue

Slaves to Fortune

William Beckford: First Prime Minister of the London Empire

By Perry Gauci

From the December 2013 Issue

Fighting Nine to Five

Britain Against Napoleon: The Organization of Victory 1793–1815

By Roger Knight