March 2024 Issue Zareer Masani What Gladstone Told His Missus Queen Victoria & Her Prime Ministers: A Personal History By Anne Somerset LR
February 2024 Issue Rosemary Ashton Crape Expectations Rites of Passage: Death and Mourning in Victorian Britain By Judith Flanders LR
September 1999 Issue Asa Briggs He Discovered Who the Conservatives Are Salisbury: Victorian Titan By Andrew Roberts
June 2020 Issue Judith Flanders When Cash Became Kin Bread Winner: An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy By Emma Griffin LR
February 1982 Issue Elizabeth Longford The Princess and the Prussian The Other Victoria By Andrew Sinclair LR
November 2018 Issue Miranda Seymour What the Valet Did Murder by the Book: A Sensational Chapter in Victorian Crime By Claire Harman LR
February 2008 Issue Emily Cockayne Gems, Guano and Sludge The Great Filth: The War against Disease in Victorian England By Stephen Halliday LR
November 2017 Issue Sarah Bradford Family Planning Queen Victoria’s Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages that Shaped Europe By Deborah Cadbury LR
February 2000 Issue John Banville Scoundrel Manages to Keep his Secrets Wainewright The Poisoner By Andrew Motion
June 2003 Issue Frances Spalding Weighty Matters The Architect's Secret: Victorian Critics and the Image of Gravity By J Mordaunt Crook LR
February 2015 Issue Christopher Hart Rolling in It Dirty Old London: The Victorian Fight against Filth By Lee Jackson LR
June 2008 Issue Stephen Halliday Eastenders The Blackest Streets: The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum By Sarah Wise LR
September 2007 Issue Sarah Wise The Great Pretender The Tichborne Claimant: A Victorian Sensation By Rohan McWilliam LR
July 2012 Issue Max Egremont Alnwick Calling As They Really Were: The Citizens of Alnwick 1831 By Keith Middlemas LR
February 2005 Issue Peter Weston For Valour Symbol of Courage: A History of the Victoria Cross By Max Arthur Supreme Courage: Heroic Stories from 150 Years of the Victoria Cross By General Sir Peter de la Billière LR
September 2012 Issue Catherine Peters Experiments in Benevolence Victorian Bloomsbury By Rosemary Ashton LR
October 2012 Issue Sarah Bradford At Home with Mrs Brown Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household By Kate Hubbard LR
October 2012 Issue Simon Heffer In Fagin’s Footsteps The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens’ London By Judith Flanders LR
December 2012 Issue Piers Brendon Lords of the Prairie 24 Prairie Fever: How British Aristocrats Staked a Claim to the American West By Peter Pagnamenta LR
Sign Up to our newsletter
Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more.@Lit_Review
Follow Literary Review on Twitter
Twitter Feed
Richard Flanagan's Question 7 is this year's winner of the @BGPrize.
In her review from our June issue, @rosalyster delves into Tasmania, nuclear physics, romance and Chekhov.
Rosa Lyster - Kiss of Death
Rosa Lyster: Kiss of Death - Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
literaryreview.co.uk
‘At times, Orbital feels almost like a long poem.’
@sam3reynolds on Samantha Harvey’s Orbital, the winner of this year’s @TheBookerPrizes
Sam Reynolds - Islands in the Sky
Sam Reynolds: Islands in the Sky - Orbital by Samantha Harvey
literaryreview.co.uk
Nick Harkaway, John le Carré's son, has gone back to the 1960s with a new novel featuring his father's anti-hero, George Smiley.
But is this the missing link in le Carré’s oeuvre, asks @ddguttenplan, or is there something awry?
D D Guttenplan - Smiley Redux
D D Guttenplan: Smiley Redux - Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway
literaryreview.co.uk