For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Parliament

March 2003 Issue

Simon Heffer

An Unlucky Man

Eden: The Life and Times of Anthony Eden, First Earl of Avon, 1897-1977

By D R Thorpe

April 2003 Issue

Simon Heffer

The Return of Supermac

The Macmillan Diaries: The Cabinet Years, 1950-1957

By Peter Catterall (ed)

April 2003 Issue

Geordie Greig

The Fragrance of His Time

Sassoon: The Worlds of Philip and Sybil

By Peter Stansky

March 2004 Issue

Jessica Mann

Hard-Working Girl

Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience

By Susan Pederson

Graham Steward

Men At Arms

The Guardsmen: Harold Macmillan, Four Friends and the World They Made

By Simon Ball

April 2009 Issue

Paul Addison

No Turning Back

Thatcher’s Britain: The Politics and Social Upheaval of the Thatcher Era

By Richard Vinen

February 2009 Issue

Adrian Tinniswood

Days of Shaking

The English Civil Wars 1640–1660

By Blair Worden

August 2008 Issue

John Adamson

A Tale of Two Houses

The Long Parliament of Charles II

By Annabel Patterson

September 2008 Issue

Kenneth O Morgan

Unelected & Underrated

Downing Street Diary: Volume Two – With James Callaghan in No 10

By Bernard Donoughue

October 2008 Issue

Vernon Bogdanor

The Long View

Britain Since 1918: The Strange Career of British Democracy

By David Marquand

March 2008 Issue

Leslie Mitchell

Pistols in Putney

The Duel: Castlereagh, Canning and Deadly Cabinet Rivalry

By Giles Hunt

Leslie Mitchell

Killer in the Commons

Why Spencer Perceval Had to Die: The Assassination of a British Prime Minister

By Andro Linklater

March 2005 Issue

Francis King

Fettered by the Multiplicity of His Talents

Harold Nicolson

By Norman Rose

November 2012 Issue

David Astor

An American in Parliament

Nancy: The Story of Lady Astor

By Adrian Fort