For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
British Prime Ministers

December 2016 Issue

Andrew Roberts

Memoiranda

November 2016 Issue

Paul Addison

Governing in Prose

Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee

By John Bew

June 2016 Issue

Andrew Roberts

Passages to India

Conservative Politics in National and Imperial Crisis: Letters from Britain to the Viceroy of India 1926–31

By Stuart Ball (ed)

June 2016 Issue

Christopher Andrew

Whispers in Downing Street

The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers

By Richard J Aldrich, Rory Cormac

November 2003 Issue

Michael Burleigh

What Thatcher Did for US

Margaret Thatcher: Volume Two- The Iron Lady

By John Campbell

June 2004 Issue

Nigel Jones

The Potato Peer Who Knew No Fear

Palmerston: 'The People's Darling'

By James Chambers

April 2009 Issue

Paul Addison

No Turning Back

Thatcher’s Britain: The Politics and Social Upheaval of the Thatcher Era

By Richard Vinen

September 2008 Issue

Kenneth O Morgan

Unelected & Underrated

Downing Street Diary: Volume Two – With James Callaghan in No 10

By Bernard Donoughue

September 2008 Issue

Richard Overy

At the Edge of War

Munich: The 1938 Appeasement Crisis

By David Faber

October 2008 Issue

Richard Overy

A War Quartet

Masters and Commanders: How Roosevelt, Churchill, Marshall and Alanbrooke Won the War in the West

By Andrew Roberts

June 2008 Issue

Richard Toye

A Liberal Lover

The Pain and the Privilege: The Women in Lloyd George’s Life

By Ffion Hague

December 2007 Issue

Jane Ridley

Eminence Rose

Clarissa Eden: A Memoir – from Churchill to Eden

By Cate Haste (ed)

November 2007 Issue

Leslie Mitchell

A Gentleman In Politics

Balfour: The Last Grandee

By R J Q Adams

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

August 2007 Issue

Michael Coren

The Big Smoke

Churchill’s Cigar

By Stephen McGinty

Leslie Mitchell

Killer in the Commons

Why Spencer Perceval Had to Die: The Assassination of a British Prime Minister

By Andro Linklater