For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Biography & 16th Century & History

November 2021 Issue

Peter Marshall

Don’t Mention the Eucharist

Zwingli: God’s Armed Prophet

By Bruce Gordon

September 2020 Issue

Caroline Finkel

Master of the Universe?

God’s Shadow: The Ottoman Sultan Who Shaped the Modern World

By Alan Mikhail

November 2018 Issue

Alexandra Gajda

No Longer the Golden Boy

Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh

By Anna Beer

April 1998 Issue

Diarmaid MacCulloch

Maybe It’s Because He Was a Londoner

The Life of Thomas More

By Peter Ackroyd

Robert Nye

The Dark Side of The Stratford Man

Ungentle Shakespeare: Scenes from his Life

By Katherine Duncan-Jones

August 1992 Issue

Anne Somerset

In Many Ways our Henry was an Incurable Romantic

The Six Wives of Henry VIII

By Antonia Fraser

Anna Whitelock

Machiavellian Queen?

Elizabeth I: Renaissance Prince – A Biography

By Lisa Hilton

Elizabeth I and Her Circle

By Susan Doran

August 2008 Issue

Lucy Wooding

For Queen and Country

Burghley: William Cecil at the Court of Elizabeth I

By Stephen Alford

October 2008 Issue

G W Bernard

When I Grow Up

Henry: Virtuous Prince

By David Starkey

April 2008 Issue

Sarah Bradford

My Last Duchess

Isabella de’ Medici: The Glorious Life and Tragic End of a Renaissance Princess

By Caroline P Murphy

April 2006 Issue

Allan Massie

Sympathy For A Devil

Elizabeth’s Spy Master: Francis Walsingham and the Secret War that Saved England

By Robert Hutchinson

November 2012 Issue

Peter Marshall

Occult Following

The Arch-Conjuror of England: John Dee

By Glyn Parry