For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Theatre & Britain & 20th Century

November 1989 Issue

Christine Eccles

Community Party

The Story of Unity Theatre

By Colin Chambers

October 2019 Issue

Jad Adams

Not Your Average Working-Class Heroine

Tastes of Honey: The Making of Shelagh Delaney and a Cultural Revolution

By Selina Todd

November 1995 Issue

Ned Sherrin

Should Carry a Health Warning

Should Carry a Health Warning

By Philip Hoare

June 2003 Issue

Sheridan Morley

Beyond Our Ken

Kenneth Tynan: A Life

By Dominic Shellard

April 2004 Issue

Valerie Grove

Still Lighting Up

The Smoking Diaries

By Simon Gray

April 2004 Issue

Jessica Mann

The Secret Gardener

Frances Hodgson Burnett

By Gretchen H Gerzina

Patrick O'Connor

The Strange Charisma of Stardom

Gielgud's Letters

By John Gielgud, Richard Mangan (Ed)

November 2004 Issue

Sheridan Morley

Wizard of Oz

Arguments with England: A Memoir

By Michael Blakemore

February 2009 Issue

Rupert Christiansen

Women of Noble Mien

Sybil Thorndike: A Star of Life

By Jonathan Croall

September 2008 Issue

Louis Barfe

Jolly Good Fun

Bounder! The Biography of Terry-Thomas

By Graham McCann

Alastair Sim: The Star of Scrooge and the Belles of St Trinian's

By Mark Simpson

December 2007 Issue

Patrick O’Connor

Love From Snoopie

The Letters of Noël Coward

By Barry Day (ed)

December 2007 Issue

Francis King

The Constant Philanderer

A Voyage Round John Mortimer

By Valerie Grove

November 2007 Issue

Irving Wardle

Look Back In Wonder

State of the Nation: British Theatre Since 1945

By Michael Billington

June 2005 Issue

Carole Angier

His English Elements

Pinter in the Theatre

By Ian Smith (ed)

April 2005 Issue

Patrick O'Connor

The Rhinoceros in the Wings

Peter Brook: A Biography

By Michael Kustov