For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
British Empire

Kyril FitzLyon

Human Cargo

Children of the Empire

By Gillian Wagner

August 2016 Issue

David Gilmour

Colonial Conundrums

India Conquered: Britain’s Raj and the Chaos of Empire

By Jon Wilson

Leslie Mitchell

Great Expectations

Heyday: Britain and the Birth of the Modern World

By Ben Wilson

March 2016 Issue

Jan Morris

It’s the Taking Part that Counts

Heroic Failure and the British

By Stephanie Barczewski

December 2015 Issue

John Keay

Hermit of the Himalayas

The Prisoner of Kathmandu: Brian Hodgson in Nepal 1820–43

By Charles Allen

August 2015 Issue

Adrian Tinniswood

To the Wild Coast

Willoughbyland: England’s Lost Colony

By Matthew Parker

July 2015 Issue

John Keay

Reluctant Allies

Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War

By Raghu Karnad

The Raj at War: A People’s History of India’s Second World War

By Yasmin Khan

June 2003 Issue

Tim Heald

Sticky Fingers

Imprint of the Raj: How Fingerprinting Was Born in Colonial India

By Chandak Sengoopta

June 2003 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

Stealing the Crown’s Jewel

The Fall of Hong Kong: Britain, China and the Japanese Occupation

By Philip Snow

June 2003 Issue

Justin Marozzi

Lines In The Sand

Parting the Desert: The Creation of the Suez Canal

By Zachary Karabell

August 2003 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

The Shanghai Beat

Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift In Shanghai

By Robert Bickers

November 2003 Issue

Christopher Ondaatje

Trouble Brewing

Tea: Addiction, Exploitation and Empire

By Roy Moxham

March 2004 Issue

Andrew Lycett

Following The Pharohs

Lord Cromer: Victorian Imperialist, Edwardian Proconsul

By Roger Owen

March 2004 Issue

William Palmer

Coastal Calamity

The Caliban Shore: The Fate of the Grosvenor Castaways

By Stephen Taylor

September 2004 Issue

What Really Happened At Rorke’s Drift

Zulu: The Heroism and Tragedy of the Zulu War of 1879

By Saul David

September 2004 Issue

Simon Heffer

The Pride of the Fleet

The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815

By N A M Rodger

September 2009 Issue

Lindy Burleigh

Everybody Under the Sun

The Daily Telegraph Book of Imperial and Commonwealth Obituaries

By David Twiston Davies (ed)

September 2009 Issue

Stephen Brumwell

A Real Cliffhanger

Death or Victory: The Battle of Quebec and the Birth of Empire

By Dan Snow

August 2008 Issue

Andrew Lycett

Queen of the East

Star of the Morning: The Extraordinary Life of Lady Hester Stanhope

By Kirsten Ellis

October 2008 Issue

Julia Keay

At the Court of Siam

Bombay Anna: The Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of The King and I Governess

By Susan Morgan