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Book Review: Winston’s War: Churchill, 1940-1945 by Max Hastings
February 15, 2024The next two years of the war for Churchill were a harrowing march through what his...
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Book Review: The Art Detective by Philip Mould
February 12, 2024Yet another of his discoveries turns out to be a lost watercolor by one of America’s...
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Book Review: Wild Romance: A Victorian Story of a Marriage, a Trial, and a Self-Made Woman by Chloë Schama
February 2, 2024A secret affair. A scandalous sex-filled trial. A tell-all novel. If it’s any consolation to Tiger...
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Small Wars by Sadie Jones
January 10, 2024The conflict becomes a war in which, “…there was no truth. It was a nothing, laughable...
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Churchill by Paul Johnson
January 6, 2024And Johnson reminds us of the memorable words he spoke after France capitulated: “Let us therefore...
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Love and Summer by William Trevor
January 5, 2024Why is it that summer can never last forever, especially when we want it to? The...
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Democracy: 1,000 Years in Pursuit of British Liberty by Peter Kellner
December 28, 2023Magna Carta, that legendary document which is so frequently referred to in discussions of freedom, and...
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The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan
December 25, 2023She sees faces in the flaking walls of the kitchen, fears for the soul of a...
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In the Kitchen by Monica Ali
December 24, 2023Yuri is a porter, one of Britain’s penniless immigrants that Ali would like us (and Gabe)...
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Waiting for the Etonians by Nick Cohen
December 23, 2023Nick Cohen is undoubtedly one of Britain’s finest living polemicists, and Waiting for the Etonians will...