For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Biography & 19th Century & France

November 1989 Issue

Patrick O'Connor

No One Thinks of Him

Satie Seen Through His Letters

By Ornella Volta

November 1999 Issue

June Rose

Making The Best of It

Toulous-Lautrec and the Fin de Siecle

By David Sweetman

June 1994 Issue

Alan Taylor

Debt was the Spur

Balzac

By Graham Robb

March 2018 Issue

Tom Stammers

Mixed Impressions

Renoir: An Intimate Biography

By Barbara Ehrlich White

September 2017 Issue

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

Lofty Company

The Great Nadar: The Man Behind the Camera

By Adam Begley

July 2017 Issue

Allan Massie

A First-Rate Education

Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris: The Story of a Friendship, a Novel, and a Terrible Year

By Peter Brooks

Patrick O'Connor

Opera’s Renegades

Puccini: A Biography

By Mary Jane Phillips-Matz

Edgard Varese

By Alan Clayson

October 2007 Issue

Allan Massie

Mummy Dearest

Madame Proust: A Biography

By Evelyne Bloch-Dano (Translated by Alice Kaplan)

July 2006 Issue

Henrietta Garnett

A Palette of Painters

The Private Lives of the Impressionists

By Sue Roe

December 2011 Issue

Michael Peppiatt

All About Vincent

Van Gogh: The Life

By Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith

October 2012 Issue

Tim Hilton

Art for Books’ Sake

Cézanne: A Life

By Alex Danchev

March 2014 Issue

Tim Blanning

What Now, Little Man?

Napoleon: Volume 1 – Soldier of Destiny, 1769–1805

By Michael Broers