For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Writing

December 1983 Issue

A N Wilson

Stars & Saints

December 1989 Issue

Joseph O'Neill

Hero Who Blew It

No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O'Brien

By Anthony Cronin

March 1985 Issue

David Robey

The Chinese Box

Reflections on The Name of the Rose

By Umberto Eco (Translated by William Weaver)

April 1989 Issue

Miles Donald

Loony Tunes

Moon Palace

By Paul Auster

November 2018 Issue

Peter Parker

From the Cutting Room Floor

October 2018 Issue

Henry Hitchings

Grammar Schooling

First You Write a Sentence: The Elements of Reading, Writing… and Life

By Joe Moran

October 1996 Issue

Amanda Craig

The Frightful Toil

The Practice of Writing

By David Lodge

August 2018 Issue

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Mum’s the Word

Writers and Their Mothers

By Dale Salwak (ed)

Paul Richardson

Man of Sixty-Two Words

The Art of the Novel

By Milan Kundera

December 2017 Issue

David Pryce-Jones

Loitering with Intent

Appointment in Arezzo: A Friendship with Muriel Spark

By Alan Taylor

Kathryn Hughes

She is a Dab Hand at Making Cookies

Negotiating With The Dead: A Writer On Writing

By Margaret Atwood

March 1997 Issue

Tim Ashley

She Made History More Interesting

Enchantress: Marthe Bibesco and Her World

By Christine Sutherland

October 2001 Issue

Martyn Bedford

She Stripped Off And Plunged In

Atonement

By Ian McEwan

August 2017 Issue

Joanna Kavenna

The Long & Short of It

Essayism

By Brian Dillon

August 1980 Issue

Margaret Forster

On Reviewing

November 2016 Issue

Valerie Grove

Line Management

How to Write Like Tolstoy: A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers

By Richard Cohen

June 1980 Issue

Norman Lebrecht

Publishing in Crisis?

August 2016 Issue

Nigel Andrew

In Praise of Blogging

July 2016 Issue

James Fleming

Reams of Our Fathers

Paper: Paging through History

By Mark Kurlansky

November 1979 Issue

David Lodge

Creative Writing in Universities