For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Literary life & 19th Century

Freya Johnston

She Bamboozled Lord Byron

Lady Caroline Lamb: A Free Spirit

By Antonia Fraser

December 2022 Issue

Norma Clarke

Sense & Insolvency

Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës

By Devoney Looser

November 2021 Issue

Donald Rayfield

Prophet of Doom

Disenchanted Wanderer: The Apocalyptic Vision of Konstantin Leontiev

By Glenn Cronin

November 2021 Issue

Oliver Ready

Raskolnikov in the Mirror

The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky, a Crime and Its Punishment

By Kevin Birmingham

September 2021 Issue

Claudia FitzHerbert

It Was a Bleak Time

The Turning Point: A Year That Changed Dickens and the World

By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

August 2021 Issue

Donald Rayfield

Disinterring Anton Chekhov

Old rumours & new finds

December 2020 Issue

Joseph Farrell

From Treasure Island to Neverland

A Friendship in Letters: Robert Louis Stevenson & J M Barrie

By Michael Shaw (ed)

September 1992 Issue

A N Wilson

A Biographer In Love

Trollope

By Victoria Glendinning

November 1993 Issue

Michael Bywater

The Bee’s Knees

The Penguin Book of Interviews

By Christopher Silvester

November 1979 Issue

Brian Sibley

He Wrote With a Pen in Each Hand

The Letters of Lewis Carroll

By Morton N Cohen and Roger Lancelyn Green (edd)

September 2019 Issue

Donald Rayfield

Artists & Lovers

The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture

By Orlando Figes

August 1999 Issue

Clive Bush

Wily and Tough Man who Became an Insider

Henry James: A Life in Letters

By Philip Horne (ed)

August 2018 Issue

Frances Wilson

A Place in the Sun

The Warm South: How the Mediterranean Shaped the British Imagination

By Robert Holland

July 1998 Issue

Michael Waterhouse

One of Literature’s Greatest Liars

Lord Byron’s Jackal: A Life of Edward John Trelawny

By David Crane

March 2018 Issue

Lucy Lethbridge

Blazing Their Own Trails

In Byron’s Wake: The Turbulent Lives of Lord Byron’s Wife and Daughter, Annabella Milbanke & Ada Lovelace

By Miranda Seymour

March 2018 Issue

John Sutherland

She Called It a Puny Town

Through Belgian Eyes: Charlotte Brontë’s Troubled Brussels Legacy

By Helen MacEwan

February 2018 Issue

Duncan Wu

Piecing it All Together

Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

By Kathryn Harkup

In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein

By Fiona Sampson

October 1999 Issue

A N Wilson

Genius in Either Role

Thackeray

By D J Taylor

December 1982 Issue

Morton N Cohen

Lewis Carroll: Friend of Children

March 2017 Issue

Andrew Lycett

A Case of Identity

Arthur & Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes

By Michael Sims