For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Mathew Lyons

From the October 2023 Issue

Marginal Interests

From the July 2023 Issue

Between Bale & Bailiff

Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside

By Rebecca Smith

Shaping the Wild: Wisdom from a Welsh Hill Farm

By David Elias

From the October 2022 Issue

A Country Fit for a Queen

Tudor England: A History

By Lucy Wooding

From the July 2022 Issue

Cold Comforts

Landscapes of Silence: From Childhood to the Arctic

By Hugh Brody

From the April 2022 Issue

They Courted Trouble

The House of Dudley: The Fall of England’s Most Scandalous Family

By Joanne Paul

From the August 2021 Issue

Marketplace of the World

Antwerp: The Glory Years

By Michael Pye

From the April 2021 Issue

Symphony of a Thousand Millennia

The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth

By Michael Spitzer

The Life of Music: New Adventures in the Western Classical Tradition

By Nicholas Kenyon

From the October 2020 Issue

Breaking the Spell

The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present

By Chris Gosden

From the June 2020 Issue

Come Hell & High Water

Sons of the Waves: The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail 1740–1840

By Stephen Taylor

From the December 2019 Issue

In Neptune’s Vast Dominions

Sailing School: Navigating Science and Skill 1550–1800

By Margaret E Schotte