For People Who Devour Books

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

Ambrogio A Caiani

Resurrections & False Dawns

Napoleon: Volume 2 – The Spirit of the Age, 1805–1810

By Michael Broers

Napoleon: Passion, Death and Resurrection, 1815–1840

By Philip Dwyer

March 2018 Issue

Tim Stanley

Jokester-in-Chief

Lincoln’s Sense of Humor

By Richard Carwardine

February 2000 Issue

John Banville

Scoundrel Manages to Keep his Secrets

Wainewright The Poisoner

By Andrew Motion

October 1989 Issue

Elizabeth Longford

Six of the Best

Eminent Victorians

By A N Wilson

August 2006 Issue

Catherine Peters

The Lust for Acquisition

Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain

By Judith Flanders

Waxing Mythical: The Life and Legend of Madame Tussaud

By Kate Berridge

February 2009 Issue

Frank McLynn

Columbus of the Woods

Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America

By Meredith Mason Brown

February 2009 Issue

Dominic Sandbrook

American Idol

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

By Doris Kearns Goodwin

September 2007 Issue

Frank McLynn

Catnip to the Señoritas

Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride

By Michael Wallis

September 2007 Issue

Leslie Mitchell

Derby’s Days

The Forgotten Prime Minister: The 14th Earl of Derby (Volume I: Ascent, 1799–1851)

By Angus Hawkins

March 2014 Issue

Tim Blanning

What Now, Little Man?

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

By Michael Broers

March 2013 Issue

Amanda Foreman

Blazing Sidesaddles

O My America! Second Acts in a New World

By Sara Wheeler