For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
20th Century & Biography & Literary life

December 2007 Issue

Francis King

The Constant Philanderer

A Voyage Round John Mortimer

By Valerie Grove

November 2007 Issue

John Gray

The Dorset Proust

Descents of Memory: The Life of John Cowper Powys

By Morine Krissdóttir

Porius

By John Cowper Powys

October 2007 Issue

Sam Leith

Hanky Panky

Harold Robbins: The Man Who Invented Sex

By Andrew Wilson

October 2007 Issue

Peter McDonald

Red-Headed Rebel

Ezra Pound: Poet I – The Young Genius, 1885–1920

By A David Moody

August 2007 Issue

Peter Washington

Out of the Fog

Joseph Conrad: A Life

By Zdzislaw Najder

The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad

By John Stape

August 2006 Issue

Francis King

A Marmoreal Mind

A Stranger on Earth: The Life and Work of Anna Kavan

By Jeremy Reed

February 2005 Issue

Henrietta Garnett

Arbitrators of the Mind

The Strachey Family

By Barbara Caine

March 2005 Issue

Peter Washington

Serious About Sex

D H Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider

By John Worthen

April 2005 Issue

Peter Washington

Of Her Darker Purposes

Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life

By Julia Briggs

September 2012 Issue

Matthew Green

Man of Parts

Ryszard Kapuściński: A Life

By Artur Domosławski (Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones)

September 2012 Issue

Sam Leith

Bandanna on the Run

Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace

By D T Max

November 2012 Issue

Jeremy Lewis

A Latter-Day Byron

Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure

By Artemis Cooper