Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands
May 26, 2020
Quarrel with the King by Adam Nicolson
May 25, 2020
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Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England by Bruce Redford
May 22, 2020A famous double portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds shows members of the Dilettanti Society sipping away...
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A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carré
May 22, 2020The violent and crude final pages of the book force us to scrutinise our feelings over...
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
May 19, 2020Such a pity Mary Ann Shaffer is not around to enjoy her celebrity! Shaffer died in...
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O Beloved Kids: Rudyard Kipling’s Letters to his Children
May 18, 2020An Imperialist, a warmonger, blind to what was in front of him, the critics say. A...
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The Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir
May 16, 2020If you’re going to mix brains with bosoms, however, you have to be very careful stylistically....
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The Right Side of the Tracks
May 15, 2020Detective fiction revels in the possibilities offered by railway travel, but it also expresses some anxiety...
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Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews
May 14, 2020Again, it took an intervention, this time by Moss Hart, to point her in the right...
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