For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
13th Century

June 2023 Issue

Nicholas Vincent

The Return of the King

Henry III: Reform, Rebellion, Civil War, Settlement – 1258–1272

By David Carpenter

March 2023 Issue

Robert Irwin

In the Land of the Waqwaq Tree

Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the Cosmos

By Travis Zadeh

June 2020 Issue

Nicholas Vincent

The Jellyfish King

Henry III: The Rise to Power and Personal Rule 1207–1258

By David Carpenter

February 1983 Issue

Mary Clive

Congenial Company

Medieval Travellers: The Rich and Restless

By Margaret Wade Labarge

February 1982 Issue

Santha Bhattacharji

Spiritual Endeavour

The Solitary, Self Individuality in the Ancrene Wisse

By Linda Georgianna

July 2019 Issue

John Keay

Imprints of Persia

India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765

By Richard M Eaton

June 2019 Issue

Nicholas Vincent

The Man Who Would be King

The Song of Simon de Montfort: England's First Revolutionary and the Death of Chivalry

By Sophie Thérèse Ambler

March 2019 Issue

Catherine Hanley

Born Almost to Rule

Daughters of Chivalry: The Forgotten Children of Edward I

By Kelcey Wilson-Lee

August 2015 Issue

Timothy Brook

Our Father in Mongolia

Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World

By Frank McLynn

August 2015 Issue

Mary Wellesley

Henry the Myth

Agincourt

By Anne Curry

Jonathan Sumption

What a Rotter

King John: Treachery, Tyranny and the Road to Magna Carta

By Marc Morris

King John: England, Magna Carta and the Making of a Tyrant

By Stephen Church

March 2004 Issue

Justin Marozzi

Sheer Khan

Genghis Khan: Life, Death and Resurrection

By John Man

April 2006 Issue

Justin Marozzi

He on Honey-Dew Hath Fed

Kublai Khan: From Xanadu to Superpower

By John Man