For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Horses & Equestrianism

November 1979 Issue

Caroline Rehder

Whip Hand

Whip Hand

By Dick Francis

Robin Oakley

Tour of the Turf

Courses for Horses: A Journey Round the Racecourses of Great Britain and Ireland

By Nicholas Clee

April 2019 Issue

Robin Oakley

The Ride of Her Life

Unbreakable: The Woman Who Defied the Nazis in the World’s Most Dangerous Horse Race

By Richard Askwith

December 2017 Issue

Robin Oakley

War Horse

Churchill at the Gallop

By Brough Scott

August 2017 Issue

John Gray

Hobby Horses

A Guide to the Classics or How to Pick the Derby Winner

By Guy Griffith & Michael Oakeshott

Susanna Forrest

Hanging Up Our Spurs

Farewell to the Horse: The Final Century of Our Relationship

By Ulrich Raulff (Translated by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp)

November 2016 Issue

Robin Oakley

A Rough Ride

The Age of the Horse: An Equine Journey through Human History

By Susanna Forrest

July 2016 Issue

Patrick Scrivenor

Turf Wars

Mr Darley’s Arabian: High Life, Low Life, Sporting Life – A History of Racing in Twenty-Five Horses

By Christopher McGrath

July 2004 Issue

Jessica Mann

Lady of Arabia

Lady Anne Blunt: A Biography

By H V F Winstone

December 2004 Issue

Peter Oborne

Not Lonely Cattle Sheds

A Year at the Races

By Jane Smiley

The British Stable

By Giles Worsley

September 2010 Issue

Matthew Bell

Turf Wars

Gentlemen and Blackguards: Gambling Mania and the Plot to Steal the Derby of 1844 – The Gambling Craze of the 1840s

By Nick Foulkes