For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Paul Lay

From the May 2022 Issue

Cricketer & Communist

C L R James: A Life Beyond the Boundaries

By John L Williams

From the April 2022 Issue

Past Masters

Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past

By Richard Cohen

From the February 2022 Issue

Palazzos by the Thames

London’s ‘Golden Mile’: The Great Houses of the Strand, 1550–1650

By Manolo Guerci

From the September 2019 Issue

Three Cheers for Thurrock

Excellent Essex: In Praise of England’s Most Misunderstood County

By Gillian Darley

From the October 2018 Issue

A Decanter of Deacons

A Field Guide to the English Clergy: A Compendium of Diverse Eccentrics, Pirates, Prelates and Adventurers; All Anglican, Some Even Practising

By Fergus Butler-Gallie

From the May 2017 Issue

Wrangling Radicals

The Leveller Revolution

By John Rees

From the February 2016 Issue

Car Park King

Richard III: A Ruler and His Reputation

By David Horspool

From the July 2015 Issue

A Plea for Polyglots

From the February 2015 Issue

‘Re-enchanting the World’

The Oxford Illustrated History of the Reformation

By Peter Marshall (ed)

From the October 2014 Issue

Return of the Narrative

From the June 2014 Issue

Anglosphere of Influence

How We Invented Freedom & Why It Matters

By Daniel Hannan

From the September 2012 Issue

Games of Thrones

The History of England, Volume II: Tudors

By Peter Ackroyd

From the November 2012 Issue

The Past Is Another Channel

From the February 2013 Issue

English Bullies, Spanish Bullion

Elizabeth’s Sea Dogs: How the English became the Scourge of the Seas

By Hugh Bicheno

From the June 2013 Issue

Spearing the Boar

Bosworth: The Birth of the Tudors

By Chris Skidmore

From the September 2013 Issue

Do Mention the War

From the April 2013 Issue

Altered States

Leviathan: The Rise of Britain as a World Power

By David Scott