For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
20th Century & Diaries

November 2015 Issue

Mark Bostridge

Love among the Paperbacks

A Notable Woman: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt

By Simon Garfield (ed)

October 2015 Issue

Piers Brendon

Learning the Lambeth Walk

The Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James’s 1932–1943

By Gabriel Gorodetsky (ed) (Translated by Tatiana Sorokina & Oliver Ready)

September 2015 Issue

Christopher Silvester

Waspish Wit

‘It’s the Pictures that Got Small’: Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood’s Golden Age

By Anthony Slide (ed)

July 2015 Issue

Anna Reid

Ration Book

The Diary of Lena Mukhina: A Girl’s Life in the Siege of Leningrad

By Valentin Kovalchuk, Aleksandr Rupasov & Aleksandr Chistikov (edd) (Translated by Amanda Love Darragh)

June 2015 Issue

John Gray

Conspicuous Consumption

The Conqueror Worm: Llewelyn Powys – A Consumptive’s Diary, 1910

By Peter J Foss (ed)

April 2003 Issue

Simon Heffer

The Return of Supermac

The Macmillan Diaries: The Cabinet Years, 1950-1957

By Peter Catterall (ed)

September 2003 Issue

David Cesarani

Tormented At The End

The Lesser Evil: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959

By Victor Klempere, Martin Chalmers (trans, ed)

October 2003 Issue

Geordie Greig

Grandees Under Fire

Beneath A Waning Moon: Diaries, 1985-1987

By James Lees-Mile

October 2003 Issue

William Palmer

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

The Journals: Volume One

By John Fowles, Charles Drazin (ed)

December 2003 Issue

Patrick O'Connor

The Contrary Contralto

Letters and Diaries of Kathleen Ferrier

By Christopher Fifield (ed)

February 2004 Issue

Sheridan Morley

Diary of a Somebody

National Service: Diary of a Decade

By Richard Eyre

November 2004 Issue

Andrew Barrow

Whatever Next?

Ceaseless Turmoil: Diaries 1988-1982

By James Lee-Milne

August 2006 Issue

Anne de Courcy

A Girl’s Own Story

Sand in My Shoes: Wartime Diaries of a WAAF

By Joan Rice

February 2009 Issue

Selina Hastings

Love and Friendship

Love’s Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen & Charles Ritchie – Letters & Diaries 1941–1973

By Victoria Glendinning with Judith Robertson (ed)

September 2008 Issue

Kenneth O Morgan

Unelected & Underrated

Downing Street Diary: Volume Two – With James Callaghan in No 10

By Bernard Donoughue

Jonathan Mirsky

Operating Underground

Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: An Extraordinary Diary of Courage from the Vietnam War

By Dang Thuy Tram (Translated by Andrew X Pham), Introduction by Frances FitzGerald

M R D Foot

In Daily Peril

Forgotten Voices of the Secret War: An Inside History of Special Operations During the Second World War

By Roderick Bailey (ed)

Elspeth Barker

A Mouse on the Jasmine

Diaries, Letters and Recollections

By Lynette Roberts (Edited by Patrick McGuinness)

April 2008 Issue

Alexander Waugh

The Maestro Matures

Diaries 1915–1923: Behind the Mask

By Sergey Prokofiev (Translated and annotated by Anthony Phillips)

August 2007 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

Betrayed From Within and Without

A Garden of Eden in Hell: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer

By Melissa Müller and Reinhard Piechocki

The Diary of Petr Ginz: 1941–1942

By Chava Pressburger (ed), (Translated by Elena Lappin)