For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
1980s & Britain

June 2023 Issue

Barney Ronay

When It All Kicked Off

Everybody Wants to Rule the World: Britain, Sport & the 1980s

By Roger Domeneghetti

November 1989 Issue

Jane Ellison

All Thatcher’s Fault

Into the Dangerous World

By Marina Warner

October 2019 Issue

Francis Wheen

Mrs Thatcher Meets Adrian Mole

Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979–1982

By Dominic Sandbrook

July 1985 Issue

A N Wilson

Bogey Fogey

The Young Fogey Handbook

By Suzanne Lowry

August 1987 Issue

Sebastian Faulks

Chippy Fellow

Looking Down on Mrs Thatcher

By Edward Pearce

June 1988 Issue

Christopher Hitchens

Great Scot

Games with Shadows

By Neal Ascherson

September 2015 Issue

Richard Vinen

Maggie Rising

Promised You a Miracle: UK80–82

By Andy Beckett

Thatcher’s Trial: Six Months that Defined a Leader

By Kwasi Kwarteng

April 2009 Issue

Paul Addison

No Turning Back

Thatcher’s Britain: The Politics and Social Upheaval of the Thatcher Era

By Richard Vinen

March 2012 Issue

Paul Johnson

Star-Crossed Allies

Reagan & Thatcher: The Difficult Relationship

By Richard Aldous

June 2013 Issue

Dominic Lawson

Lady of the House

Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume One: Not for Turning

By Charles Moore

Not for Turning: The Life of Margaret Thatcher

By Robin Harris