For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Publishing & Literary life

September 2023 Issue

Richard Davenport-Hines

His Best Book was His Address Book

The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing

By Thomas Harding

February 2002 Issue

Kathryn Hughes

Diana Athill at Home

February 1987 Issue

Jeremy Lewis

Saint Victor

Victor Gollancz: A Biography

By Ruth Dudley Edwards

February 2018 Issue

Henrietta Garnett

An Eye for Greatness

The Uncommon Reader: A Life of Edward Garnett

By Helen Smith

October 1987 Issue

Richard Cobb

I Remember It Well

Playing For Time

By Jeremy Lewis

November 2008 Issue

William St Clair

The Spirit of His Age

William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man

By Duncan Wu

August 2008 Issue

Peter Washington

Literary Legacies

The Seven Lives of John Murray: The Story of a Publishing Dynasty

By Humphrey Carpenter

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

December 2007 Issue

Carole Angier

Cool Clear Burn

Somewhere Towards the End

By Diana Athill

February 2013 Issue

Carole Angier

Teach Us to Write Well