This 'jaunty narrative raises fundamental questions about the role of popular history. Should this just be a matter of telling tales, as the general public often seems to think?'

@DrLRoach weighs up Charles Spencer's account of the White Ship Disaster.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/wholl-take-the-helm

'Amis clearly belongs to the do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do school of pedagogy. More or less everything he says is demonstrably contradicted by elements of his own work, be they here or elsewhere.'

https://literaryreview.co.uk/never-without-a-hitch

'The bar is set high at the outset, and readers are primed to wonder if Mikhail can make his case.'

Does Alan Mikhail's new life of the Sultan Selim I really overturn 'shibboleths that have held sway for a millennium'? Caroline Finkel investigates.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/master-of-the-universe-3