For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Group biography & Biography

October 2020 Issue

Freya Johnston

We are Family

The Good Sharps: The Brothers and Sisters Who Remade Their World

By Hester Grant

April 2020 Issue

Freya Johnston

Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Dogs

The Fall of the House of Byron: Scandal and Seduction in Georgian England

By Emily Brand

July 2019 Issue

Arabella Byrne

Them Too

Three Women

By Lisa Taddeo

June 2019 Issue

Frances Wilson

Neo-Pagans at Large

Noble Savages: The Olivier Sisters – Four Lives in Seven Fragments

By Sarah Watling

Tim Richardson

A Raker’s Progress

The Hidden Horticulturists: The Untold Story of the Men Who Shaped Britain’s Gardens

By Fiona Davison

October 2000 Issue

Thomas Hodgkinson

But What Did They Eat?

The Immortal Dinner

By Penelope Hughes-Hallett

April 2019 Issue

Clare Bucknell

Thinkers & Drinkers

The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age

By Leo Damrosch

June 2018 Issue

Kevin Jackson

The Jeddah Gang

Behind the Lawrence Legend: The Forgotten Few Who Shaped the Arab Revolt

By Philip Walker

September 2016 Issue

Frances Wilson

Poetry & Pose

Byron’s Women

By Alexander Larman

March 2016 Issue

Stoddard Martin

Writers’ Retreat

Summer Before the Dark: Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, Ostend 1936

By Volker Weidermann (Translated by Carol Brown Janeway)

December 1984 Issue

Harold Acton

A Complicated Clan

The House of Mitford

By Jonathan Guinness and Catherine Guinness

April 2015 Issue

David Bodanis

A Few Nice Men

The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

By Walter Isaacson

Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader

By Brent Schlender & Rick Tetzeli

September 2004 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

Angkor Where?

Ghost Ships: A Surrealist Love Triangle

By Robert McNab

July 2010 Issue

Carole Angier

Men & Women in Dark Times

Stranger from Abroad: Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Friendship and Forgiveness

By Daniel Maier-Katkin

September 2009 Issue

Sarah Bradford

Shared Passions

John Piper, Myfanwy Piper: Lives in Art

By Frances Spalding

Elspeth Barker

Getting On With It

A Jury of her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx

By Elaine Showalter

July 2008 Issue

Peter Washington

It’s All Relative

House of Wits: An Intimate Portrait of the James Family

By Paul Fisher

August 2014 Issue

Alex Danchev

Band of Bohemians

In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and Modernism in Paris 1900–1910

By Sue Roe

August 2008 Issue

Peter Washington

Literary Legacies

The Seven Lives of John Murray: The Story of a Publishing Dynasty

By Humphrey Carpenter

September 2008 Issue

Rupert Christiansen

Luvvie Lives

A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and Their Remarkable Families

By Michael Holroyd