For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Autobiography & Memoir & Britain

November 2024 Issue

Richard Vinen

Boris Bunter?

Unleashed

By Boris Johnson

July 2023 Issue

Robert Colls

From Wapping to Westminster

One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up: A Memoir of Growing Up and Getting On

By Wes Streeting

November 2020 Issue

D J Taylor

Sex, Drugs & Poetry

I Wanna Be Yours

By John Cooper Clarke

October 2020 Issue

Adrian Weale

Blowin’ in the Wind

War and Peacekeeping: Personal Reflections on Conflict and Lasting Peace

By Martin Bell

February 1990 Issue

Miles Kington

A Musician Who is Blacker Than Most

Miles: The Autobiography

By Miles Davis (with Quincy Troupe)

A History of Jazz in Britain, 1950–1970

By Jim Godbolt

Robert Colls

Class Acts

Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns

By Kerry Hudson

Common People: An Anthology of Working-Class Writers

By Kit de Waal (ed)

April 2019 Issue

David Edgerton

Money Talk

Nine Crises: Fifty Years of Covering the British Economy from Devaluation to Brexit

By William Keegan

July 1998 Issue

Richard Eyre

In Restless Flight to be an Auteur

Threads of Time: Recollections

By Peter Brook

March 2018 Issue

Tom Fort

Angler of Incident

The Old Man and the Sand Eel

By Will Millard

March 2018 Issue

Wendy Moore

The Past is Another Person

Somebody I Used to Know

By Wendy Mitchell

By Anna Wharton

December 2017 Issue

Robert Chesshyre

Paper Trail

Shouting in the Street: Adventures and Misadventures of a Fleet Street Survivor

By Donald Trelford

August 2017 Issue

Anne Sebba

History Girl

Joining the Dots: A Woman in Her Time

By Juliet Gardiner

Joanna Kavenna

Troubled Waters

Hidden Nature: A Voyage of Discovery

By Alys Fowler

January 1997 Issue

Muriel Spark

Harold Macmillan: A Memoir

January 1997 Issue

Jan Morris

Forget the Fluff

With Chatwin: A Portrait of Bruce Chatwin

By Susannah Clapp

October 1993 Issue

Lynn Barber

He Was Disgusted by a Steak Tartare

Tricks of Memory

By Peregrine Worsthorne

Max Egremont

Sons and Authors

Fifty years with Father

By David Unwin

April 1981 Issue

Anita Desai

The Spice of Life

Bengal to Birmingham

By Faizur Rasul

January 1988 Issue

Paul Foot

Lost in the Post

Out of The Wilderness: Diaries, 1963-1967

By Tony Benn

September 2015 Issue

Richard Canning

Growing up in Gray’s Inn

Kid Gloves: A Voyage Round My Father

By Adam Mars-Jones