For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Reference

November 1989 Issue

Gerard Noel

Not So Innocent

A Dictionary of Superstitions

By Iona Opie & Maria Tatem (edd)

November 1979 Issue

Keith Miles

Gasping for Words

Collins Dictionary of the English Language

By Patrick Hanks (ed)

February 1987 Issue

Malcolm Bradbury

Connolly’s Parlour Game

100 Key Books of the Modern Movement from England, France and America 1880-1950

By Cyril Connolly

February 1987 Issue

Geoffrey Wheatcroft

Nowt so Queer as Folks

The Dictionary of National Biography 1971–1980

By Lord Blake and C S Nicholls (edd)

April 2017 Issue

Simon Heffer

Choose Caerphilly

The Oxford Companion to Cheese

By Catherine Donnelly (ed)

October 2016 Issue

Christopher Howse

The Definitive Version

The Word Detective: A Life in Words – From Serendipity to Selfie

By John Simpson

January 1991 Issue

Alan Bell

Earned His Pension

A Dictionary of the English Language (2 Vols)

By Samuel Johnson

Kevin Jackson

Urra=hubbulu

You Could Look It Up: The Reference Shelf from Ancient Babylon to Wikipedia

By Jack Lynch

July 2004 Issue

Patrick O’Connor

The Age of the Silent Singer

Encyclopedia of Opera on Screen

By Ken Wlaschin

August 2014 Issue

Michael Tanner

Dasein Explained

Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon

By Barbara Cassin (ed) (Translated by Steven Rendall, Christian Hubert, Jeffrey Mehlman, Nathanael Stein & Michael Syrotinski) (Translation edited by Emily Apter, Jacques Lezra & Michael Wood)