For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Lindy Burleigh

From the October 2019 Issue

Family Fortunes

My Name Is Why

By Lemn Sissay

Travel Light, Move Fast

By Alexandra Fuller

Not Speaking

By Norma Clarke

From the February 2019 Issue

Going by the Book

All the Lives We Ever Lived

By Katharine Smyth

Girl with Dove

By Sally Bayley

This is Not a Book About Charles Darwin

By Emma Darwin

From the July 2015 Issue

Gone Girls

The Disappeared

By Roger Scruton

From the March 2004 Issue

Corsets And Colonials

One Last Look

By Susanna Moore

From the August 2004 Issue

Hard-Boiled History

Alchemy

By Maureen Duffy

From the April 2011 Issue

The Latin Lover

Last Dance with Valentino

By Daisy Waugh

From the March 2010 Issue

Lindy Burleigh on a covey of first novels

From the September 2009 Issue

Everybody Under the Sun

The Daily Telegraph Book of Imperial and Commonwealth Obituaries

By David Twiston Davies (ed)

From the April 2009 Issue

Good Fences

Security

By Stephen Amidon

From the February 2009 Issue

Lindy Burleigh Looks at Three First Novels

Mr Toppit

By Charles Elton

The Rescue Man

By Anthony Quinn

Love Me

By Gemma Weekes

From the July 2008 Issue

Lindy Burleigh anatomises four first novels

From the September 2008 Issue

Land of Poets & Blood

The Wasted Vigil

By Nadeem Aslam

From the April 2008 Issue

Lindy Burleigh on Four First Novels

From the March 2008 Issue

Costume Drama

The Clothes on their Backs

By Linda Grant

From the December 2007 Issue

Picasso’s Pretender

The Painter of Battles

By Arturo Pérez-Reverte (Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden)

From the August 2007 Issue

Birth of a Terrorist

Sirens of Baghdad

By Yasmina Khadra

From the July 2007 Issue

Dark Young Things

Safe Houses

By David Pryce-Jones

From the February 2007 Issue

Parallel Lives

Measuring Time

By Helon Habila

From the June 2006 Issue

Country Noir

Winter’s Bone

By Daniel Woodrell

From the April 2006 Issue

Portrait of A Painting

Keeping the World Away

By Margaret Forster