For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Literary life & Writing

November 1986 Issue

Kenneth Rose

Voltaire’s Brain Unearthed

A Talent to Annoy: Essays, Journalism and Reviews

By Nancy Mitford (Edited by Charlotte Mosley)

December 2021 Issue

Joanna Kavenna

Have You Considered Accountancy?

How to Start Writing (and When to Stop): Advice for Writers

By Wisława Szymborska (Edited and translated from Polish by Clare Cavanagh)

March 2021 Issue

Bill Bell

The Skull in the Hall

The Author’s Effects: On Writer’s House Museums

By Nicola J Watson

December 1983 Issue

Cosmo Landesman

Make or Break

November 2018 Issue

Peter Parker

From the Cutting Room Floor

August 2018 Issue

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Mum’s the Word

Writers and Their Mothers

By Dale Salwak (ed)

December 2017 Issue

David Pryce-Jones

Loitering with Intent

Appointment in Arezzo: A Friendship with Muriel Spark

By Alan Taylor

Kathryn Hughes

She is a Dab Hand at Making Cookies

Negotiating With The Dead: A Writer On Writing

By Margaret Atwood

January 1991 Issue

Michael De-La-Noy

The Land Was Theirs

Countries of the Mind: The Meaning of Place to Writers

By Gillian Tindall

November 2015 Issue

Matthew Parker

From Ian with Love

The Man with the Golden Typewriter: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Letters

By Fergus Fleming (ed)

July 2010 Issue

Rosalind Porter

Interview: Writing In Digital Age – Margaret Atwood