For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Childhood

August 2024 Issue

Suzi Feay

Without a Care

Ootlin

By Jenni Fagan

December 2023 Issue

Claudia FitzHerbert

Two’s Company

Twinkind: The Singular Significance of Twins

By William Viney

Tom Whyman

School of Wildlife

The Jay, the Beech and the Limpetshell: Finding Wild Things with My Kids

By Richard Smyth

Elizabeth Goldring

Pop Goes the Cockerel

Tudor Children

By Nicholas Orme

November 2022 Issue

Nora Duckett

Think of the Children

Behind Closed Doors: Why We Break Up Families – and How to Mend Them

By Polly Curtis

July 2022 Issue

Claudia FitzHerbert

Growing Pains

Amy & Lan

By Sadie Jones

June 2022 Issue

Michael Javen Fortner

Street Fighting Girl

Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in New York City

By Andrea Elliott

February 2020 Issue

Lucy Lethbridge

Out of Lanarkshire

Motherwell: A Girlhood

By Deborah Orr

January 1989 Issue

Bryony Edmunds

Tales for Young Peasants

Stories For My Children

By Leo Tolstoy

October 2001 Issue

Martyn Bedford

She Stripped Off And Plunged In

Atonement

By Ian McEwan

April 1996 Issue

Tessa Blackstone

Putting Kids First

It Takes a Village

By Hillary R Clinton

Kyril FitzLyon

Human Cargo

Children of the Empire

By Gillian Wagner

September 2016 Issue

Matthew Smith

The Kids Aren’t Alright

ADHD Nation: The Disorder. The Drugs. The Inside Story.

By Alan Schwarz

Alan Rafferty

About Five Boys

July 2008 Issue

Vyvyen Brendon

‘All His Uncles and Aunts Spanked Him’

Growing Up in England: The Experience of Childhood 1600–1914

By Anthony Fletcher

New Lives for Old: The Story of Britain’s Child Migrants

By Roger Kershaw and Janet Sacks

August 2008 Issue

Melanie Phillips

The ‘Me’ in Media

Look at Me: Celebrating the Self in Modern Britain

By Peter Whittle

Joanna Kavenna

Babes in the Woods

Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape

By Jay Griffiths