For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Publishing & 20th Century

August 2024 Issue

Peter Parker

Men About Town

September 2023 Issue

Andrew Hussey

It’s Not Porn, It’s Literature

Dirty Books: Erotic Fiction and the Avant-Garde in Mid-Century Paris and New York

By Barry Reay & Nina Attwood

March 2020 Issue

D J Taylor

Fiction, Feminism & Fake Vicars

A Bite of the Apple: A Life with Books, Writers and Virago

By Lennie Goodings

December 2019 Issue

Nicky Haslam

Park Avenue Prince

Condé Nast: The Man and His Empire

By Susan Ronald

February 2018 Issue

Henrietta Garnett

An Eye for Greatness

The Uncommon Reader: A Life of Edward Garnett

By Helen Smith

February 2017 Issue

Jeremy Lewis

The Emigrés

July 1981 Issue

Peter Owen

The World of Books: 30 Years of Independent Publishing

Max Egremont

Sons and Authors

Fifty years with Father

By David Unwin

September 2004 Issue

Valerie Grove

In Restaurants, Other Diners Applauded When He Left

Jew Made in England

By Anthony Blond

October 2008 Issue

Jeremy Lewis

Grub Street Grouser

Julian Maclaren-Ross: Selected Letters

By Paul Willetts (ed)

June 2008 Issue

Jeremy Lewis

Passion For Print

The Man Who Made Penguins: The Life of Sir William Emrys Williams Editor-in-Chief, Penguin Books 1936–1965

By Sander Meredeen

March 2008 Issue

John de St Jorre

Agent Provocateur

Obelisk: A History of Jack Kahane and the Obelisk Press

By Neil Pearson

December 2007 Issue

Carole Angier

Cool Clear Burn

Somewhere Towards the End

By Diana Athill

April 2005 Issue

Robin Denniston

The Cape Crusader

Publisher

By Tom Maschler

June 2013 Issue

Phil Baker

How to Sell Paper

Fifty Years in the Fiction Factory: The Working Life of Herbert Allingham

By Julia Jones