For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
17th Century

October 2016 Issue

Adrian Tinniswood

Charlie’s Angels

Royal Renegades: The Children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars

By Linda Porter

June 1992 Issue

Peter Bradshaw

Sex Mad Soap Opera

Fire from Heaven: Life in an English Town in the Seventeenth Century

By David Underdown

Linda Porter

Like Father, Like Son

The Last Royal Rebel: The Life and Death of James, Duke of Monmouth

By Anna Keay

Charles II: The Star King

By Clare Jackson

Robert Mayhew

Privateer, Polymath, Poet

A Stain in the Blood: The Remarkable Voyage of Sir Kenelm Digby

By Joe Moshenska

April 2016 Issue

Adrian Tinniswood

Reason’s Season

The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind

By A C Grayling

June 1983 Issue

Christopher Hill

Missed Opportunity

Revolutionary Prose of the English Civil War

By Howard Erskine-Hill and Graham Storey (ed)

Antonia Douro

Overbearing Woman Who Asked for It

Countess Dracula: The Life and Times of Elisabeth Bathory, The Blood Countess

By Tony Thorne

March 2016 Issue

John Banville

Sympathy for the Bedevilled

The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler’s Fight for His Mother

By Ulinka Rublack

February 2016 Issue

John Brewer

Ars Longa…

The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velázquez

By Laura Cumming

August 1996 Issue

Hugh Trevor-Roper

What Would Have Happened If It Had Worked

The Gunpowder Plot

By Antonia Fraser

December 2015 Issue

Anne Somerset

How to Poison a King

The Murder of King James I

By Alastair Bellany & Thomas Cogswell

November 2015 Issue

Jerry Brotton

Delft Touches

Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing

By Laura J Snyder

October 2015 Issue

Katherine Duncan-Jones

Of Plagues & Players

1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of 'Lear'

By James Shapiro

August 2015 Issue

Jan Morris

Though the Open Door

Everything Is Happening: Journey into a Painting

By Michael Jacobs

August 2015 Issue

Adrian Tinniswood

To the Wild Coast

Willoughbyland: England’s Lost Colony

By Matthew Parker

June 2015 Issue

Claire Preston

Brownean Notions

The Adventures of Sir Thomas Browne in the 21st Century

By Hugh Aldersey-Williams

June 2015 Issue

Jonathan Keates

Treason at the Tower

The Audacious Crimes of Colonel Blood: The Spy Who Stole the Crown Jewels & Became the King’s Secret Agent

By Robert Hutchinson

Blair Worden

An Eie for Detail

Brief Lives, with an Apparatus for the Lives of our English Mathematical Writers

By John Aubrey (Edited by Kate Bennett)

John Aubrey: My Own Life

By Ruth Scurr

March 2003 Issue

Gillian Darley

Just Good Friends

Transformations of Love: The Friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin

By Frances Harris

March 2003 Issue

Frank McLynn

The Wisest Fool in Christendom

The Cradle King: A Life of James VI and I

By Alan Stewart