For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Norma Clarke

From the September 2021 Issue

Anyone for Feminism?

All In: An Autobiography

By Billie Jean King

From the August 2021 Issue

Rooms for Render

This Dark Country: Women Artists, Still Life and Intimacy in the Early Twentieth Century

By Rebecca Birrell

From the June 2021 Issue

Harley Street Irregulars

From the March 2021 Issue

The Female Gaze

The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience – 500 Years of Women’s Self-Portraits

By Jennifer Higgie

From the June 2020 Issue

A Right Racket

A People’s History of Tennis

By David Berry

From the April 2020 Issue

Portraits of Ladies

From the February 2020 Issue

Hutch Ado About Nothing

The Imposteress Rabbit Breeder: Mary Toft and Eighteenth-Century England

By Karen Harvey

From the August 2019 Issue

The Flower of Her Age

Mrs Delany: A Life

By Clarissa Campbell Orr

From the December 2018 Issue

In Search of Dona Quixote

Charlotte Lennox: An Independent Mind

By Susan Carlile

From the December 2016 Issue

Labour of Love

Amatory Pleasures: Explorations in Eighteenth-Century Sexual Culture

By Julie Peakman

From the November 2016 Issue

Sir Novelty Back in Fashion

Partial Histories: A Reappraisal of Colley Cibber

By Elaine M McGirr

From the October 2009 Issue

The Harlots’ Progress

The Secret History of Georgian London: How the Wages of Sin Shaped the Capital

By Dan Cruickshank

From the March 2012 Issue

Some Years before 1963

The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution

By Faramerz Dabhoiwala

From the March 2013 Issue

Sabrina Fair

How to Create the Perfect Wife: Georgian Britain’s Most Ineligible Bachelor and His Quest to Cultivate the Ideal Woman

By Wendy Moore

From the September 2013 Issue

London with the Many Sins

The First Bohemians: Life and Art in London’s Golden Age

By Vic Gatrell

The Beau Monde: Fashionable Society in Georgian London

By Hannah Greig