The Perfect Summer by Juliet Nicolson
May 31, 2026...essentially, the book remains a story of British upper classes and the author has seemingly trawled...
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
May 29, 2026Repression, fear and even loathing run through her mind as she braces herself for what is...
Believers and Infidels
May 27, 2026For the first time there was a feeling that technologically, economically and politically, as well as...
Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the British Blues Revival
May 27, 2026Interest in Rosetta in Britain was part and parcel of a larger trend: the postwar blues...
Tommy’s Honor by Kevin Cook
May 27, 2026Sheep wallows eventually became sand traps and the first greens were nothing more than somewhat level...
Be Near Me by Andrew O’Hagan
May 26, 2026This is a broad ranging work as it manages to be poetic whilst drawing on current...
The Union: England, Scotland And the Treaty of 1707 – by Michael Fry
May 20, 2026The story of modern Britain – at least one of the stories – begins some three...
The Last Victorian: John Buchan and the Hannay Quartet
April 25, 2026But, even more importantly, he also struck the first modern note in the evolution of the...

The Thick of It Recap – Series 3, Episode 5
April 24, 2026Of course we can’t know what goes on in the writers’ rooms, but combining Martin’s hand-turned...

Book Review: Diaries by George Orwell
March 25, 2026Europe had yet to recover from the First World War and the Allied peoples were at...






