For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
1980s

April 1991 Issue

Gill Hornby

Long Ago Eighties

The Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed

By Barbara Ehrenreich

January 1987 Issue

Melvyn Bragg

Acts of Faith

The Arts and the People

By Sir Roy Shaw

October 1986 Issue

Sebastian Faulks

Die Dismal Fog

Coasting

By Jonathan Raban

December 1984 Issue

Germaine Greer

Jet-Set Glitz

Nudes: 1981–1984

By David Bailey

November 1984 Issue

John Haffenden

Magical Mannerist

Interview with Angela Carter

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

August 2008 Issue

Dominic Sandbrook

Pizza Politics

Alpha Dogs: How Political Spin Became a Global Business

By James Harding

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