For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
20th Century & Politics

June 2019 Issue

David Motadel

Losing their Religion

Secular States, Religious Politics: India, Turkey, and the Future of Secularism

By Sumantra Bose

April 2019 Issue

Jane Ridley

Prime Minister’s Pet

Max Beaverbrook: Not Quite a Gentleman

By Charles Williams

March 2019 Issue

Simon Heffer

Death in the Car Park

The Man Who Was Saturday: The Extraordinary Life of Airey Neave

By Patrick Bishop

December 2018 Issue

Robert Colls

Equality Knocks

Left for Dead? The Strange Death and Rebirth of the Labour Party

By Lewis Goodall

A Useable Past, Volume 2: A New Life – The Religion of Socialism in Britain 1883–1896. Alternatives to State Socialism

By Stephen Yeo

August 2018 Issue

Simon Heffer

From Riga with Love

The Zinoviev Letter: The Conspiracy That Never Dies

By Gill Bennett

February 1998 Issue

Brian Walden

A First-Class Man to Study these Mediocrities

The Road to Number 10: From Bonar Law to Tony Blair

By Alan Watkins

June 1986 Issue

Susan Crosland

Edna Strikes a Blow

Wives of Fame: Mary Livingstone, Jenny Marx, Emma Darwin

By Edna Healey

September 1985 Issue

Christopher Hitchens

Triteness is All

Observations: Selected Speeches and Essays 1982-1984

By Henry Kissinger

April 1987 Issue

Christopher Hitchens

Self-Castrated Beaver

Castro

By Peter Bourne

July 2018 Issue

Richard Vinen

He Paid For His Own Electricity

A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle

By Julian Jackson

March 1996 Issue

Dennis Sewell

What Conspiracy?

The Killing of Robert F Kennedy

By Dan E Moldea

February 1994 Issue

Jonathan Foreman

At the End of the Day, Bourgeois is Best

Arguing Revolution: The Intellectual Left in Postwar France

By Sunil Khilnani

Donald Sassoon

La Dolce Vita?

The Archipelago: Italy Since 1945

By John Foot

April 2018 Issue

Andrew Hussey

Scourge of Empire

Alienation and Freedom

By Frantz Fanon (Edited by Jean Khalfa & Robert J C Young) (Translated by Steven Corcoran)

John Grigg

Politics Was in Her Blood

Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi

By Katherine Frank

April 2018 Issue

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey

Marching Ordos

Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism

By Quinn Slobodian

April 2018 Issue

Piers Brendon

Demonstrate or Procreate

The Long ’68: Radical Protest and Its Enemies

By Richard Vinen

April 2018 Issue

Tim Stanley

A Valediction to Power

LBJ's 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval

By Kyle Longley

February 2018 Issue

Wendy Moore

No Respect for Golf Courses

Rise Up, Women! The Remarkable Lives of the Suffragettes

By Diane Atkinson

Hearts and Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote

By Jane Robinson

February 2018 Issue

Keshava Guha

Year of Infamy

1984: India's Guilty Secret

By Pav Singh