For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
London & Biography

April 2021 Issue

Frances Spalding

Aesthete of Gordon Square

Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism

By Mark Hussey

April 2019 Issue

Clare Bucknell

Thinkers & Drinkers

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

By Leo Damrosch

November 1988 Issue

Peter Cook

Essential Facts Missing

Spike

By Dominic Behan

October 2018 Issue

Jonathan Keates

Zadok Released

Handel in London: The Making of a Genius

By Jane Glover

April 1998 Issue

Diarmaid MacCulloch

Maybe It’s Because He Was a Londoner

The Life of Thomas More

By Peter Ackroyd

November 2017 Issue

Tim Richardson

Opposites Attract

The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn

By Margaret Willes

October 2016 Issue

Nicholas Roe

Near the Madding Crowd

Thomas Hardy: Half a Londoner

By Mark Ford

April 2016 Issue

Dominic Green

The Prometheus of Modern Times

Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America’s Founding Father

By George Goodwin

Philip Oakes

Local Hero

Fear and Loathing in Fitzrovia: The Bizarre Life of Writer, Actor, Soho Dandy Julian Maclaren-Ross

By Paul Willetts

September 2009 Issue

Paul Johnson

The Frozen Deep

Charles Dickens: A Life Defined by Writing

By Michael Slater

April 2006 Issue

Chandak Sengoopta

Beware of the Water

The Medical Detective: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera

By Sandra Hempel

April 2014 Issue

Anne Somerset

Out, Damned Nightspot

Shakespeare and the Countess: The Battle that Gave Birth to the Globe

By Chris Laoutaris