For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Robert Colls

From the October 2024 Issue

Pride & Prejudice

A Woman Like Me: A Memoir

By Diane Abbott

From the November 2023 Issue

The Umpire Strikes Back

More Than a Game: A History of How Sport Made Britain

By David Horspool

From the July 2023 Issue

From Wapping to Westminster

One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up: A Memoir of Growing Up and Getting On

By Wes Streeting

From the June 2023 Issue

Aristocracy of Labour

An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals

By Polly Toynbee

From the May 2023 Issue

Coastal Shelf

The Seaside: England’s Love Affair

By Madeleine Bunting

From the November 2022 Issue

That Was The Queen That Was

The Reign: Life in Elizabeth’s Britain – Part I: The Way It Was, 1952–79

By Matthew Engel

From the September 2022 Issue

Brum’s the Word

Second City: Birmingham and the Forging of Modern Britain

By Richard Vinen

From the August 2022 Issue

O Clouds Unfold!

Jerusalem: Blake, Parry, and the Fight for Englishness

By Jason Whittaker

From the April 2021 Issue

Room at the Top?

Snakes and Ladders: The Great British Social Mobility Myth

By Selina Todd

From the November 2020 Issue

Let Them Read Catullus

A People’s History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939

By Edith Hall & Henry Stead

From the December 2019 Issue

Home Office Truths

Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation

By Colin Grant

The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment

By Amelia Gentleman

From the May 2019 Issue

Class Acts

Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns

By Kerry Hudson

Common People: An Anthology of Working-Class Writers

By Kit de Waal (ed)

From the December 2018 Issue

Equality Knocks

Left for Dead? The Strange Death and Rebirth of the Labour Party

By Lewis Goodall

A Useable Past, Volume 2: A New Life – The Religion of Socialism in Britain 1883–1896. Alternatives to State Socialism

By Stephen Yeo

From the November 2018 Issue

Why I Think

Liberty, Equality, and Humbug: Orwell’s Political Ideals

By David Dwan

From the March 2018 Issue

Working Five to Nine

Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain

By James Bloodworth

From the November 2017 Issue

Arguments for Democracy

Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom

By Thomas E Ricks

From the August 2017 Issue

Happy Hunting

The Last Wolf: The Hidden Springs of Englishness

By Robert Winder

From the July 2016 Issue

Made in Chelmsley

Respectable: The Experience of Class

By Lynsey Hanley

From the February 2016 Issue

Who Do You Think You Are?

Social Class in the 21st Century

By Mike Savage, with Niall Cunningham, Fiona Devine, Sam Friedman, Daniel Laurison, Lisa McKenzie, Andrew Miles, Helene Snee & Paul Wakeling

From the September 2015 Issue

Crying Shame

Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears

By Thomas Dixon