Book Review: Wild Romance: A Victorian Story of a Marriage, a Trial, and a Self-Made Woman by Chloë Schama
May 17, 2025A secret affair. A scandalous sex-filled trial. A tell-all novel. If it’s any consolation to Tiger...
Small Wars by Sadie Jones
April 22, 2025The conflict becomes a war in which, “…there was no truth. It was a nothing, laughable...
Churchill by Paul Johnson
April 16, 2025And Johnson reminds us of the memorable words he spoke after France capitulated: “Let us therefore...
Love and Summer by William Trevor
April 15, 2025Why is it that summer can never last forever, especially when we want it to? The...
Democracy: 1,000 Years in Pursuit of British Liberty by Peter Kellner
April 7, 2025Magna Carta, that legendary document which is so frequently referred to in discussions of freedom, and...
The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan
April 5, 2025She sees faces in the flaking walls of the kitchen, fears for the soul of a...
In the Kitchen by Monica Ali
April 3, 2025Yuri is a porter, one of Britain’s penniless immigrants that Ali would like us (and Gabe)...
Waiting for the Etonians by Nick Cohen
April 1, 2025Nick Cohen is undoubtedly one of Britain’s finest living polemicists, and Waiting for the Etonians will...
The Bolter by Frances Osborne
April 1, 2025She introduces a woman who may have upset those around her by her promiscuity, even nymphomania,...
Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell
March 23, 2025Much more serious, though, is the book’s take on the medieval world as a whole. Alongside...




