For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Social history & 21st Century

November 2024 Issue

Frances Cairncross

The Price of Parenthood

The Care Dilemma: Caring Enough in the Age of Sex Equality

By David Goodhart

October 2024 Issue

Alexander Raubo

All Fall Down

Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders and the Rise of Social Engineering

By Malcolm Gladwell

September 2024 Issue

Danny Kelly

Forever Young

Hope I Get Old Before I Die: Why Rock Stars Never Retire

By David Hepworth

September 2024 Issue

Frances Wilson

Best of Frenemies

The Virago Book of Friendship

By Rachel Cooke (ed)

July 2017 Issue

Tom Fort

Busman’s Holiday

Riding Route 94: An Accidental Journey through the Story of Britain

By David McKie

March 2017 Issue

Maria Margaronis

Roads to Rhodope

Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe

By Kapka Kassabova

June 2004 Issue

Jessica Mann

Affairs of the Hearth

Home: The Story of Everyone Who Ever Lived In Our House

By Julie Myerson

August 2008 Issue

Kerry Brown

War & Peace

The City of Heavenly Tranquillity: Beijing in the History of China

By Jasper Becker

China: A History

By John Keay

September 2008 Issue

Amol Rajan

Terms of Estrangement

Balti Britain: A Journey Through the British Asian Experience

By Ziauddin Sardar

March 2008 Issue

Paul Addison

Are We Declining?

From Anger to Apathy: The British Experience since 1975

By Mark Garnett

November 2007 Issue

Caroline Moorehead

Brutal Truths

Rape: A History from 1860 to the Present Day

By Joanna Bourke

April 2012 Issue

Brendan Simms

Lives Go On

The War is Dead, Long Live the War: Bosnia – The Reckoning

By Ed Vulliamy

October 2012 Issue

James Le Fanu

Teach Them to Sit Still

Hyperactive: The Controversial History of ADHD

By Matthew Smith

February 2013 Issue

Robert Chesshyre

Road to Nowhere

The Last Days of Detroit: Motor Cars, Motown and the Collapse of an Industrial Giant

By Mark Binelli