Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands
March 20, 2025Set against the backdrop of a yachting trip to the German coast, the story weds a...
Quarrel with the King by Adam Nicolson
March 18, 2025Nicolson concludes his reflections by noting that “the custom of the manor” believed “to an extent...
Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England by Bruce Redford
March 14, 2025A famous double portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds shows members of the Dilettanti Society sipping away...
A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carré
March 14, 2025The violent and crude final pages of the book force us to scrutinise our feelings over...
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
March 9, 2025Such a pity Mary Ann Shaffer is not around to enjoy her celebrity! Shaffer died in...
O Beloved Kids: Rudyard Kipling’s Letters to his Children
March 7, 2025An Imperialist, a warmonger, blind to what was in front of him, the critics say. A...
The Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir
March 4, 2025If you’re going to mix brains with bosoms, however, you have to be very careful stylistically....
Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews
March 3, 2025Again, it took an intervention, this time by Moss Hart, to point her in the right...
The Right Side of the Tracks
March 1, 2025Detective fiction revels in the possibilities offered by railway travel, but it also expresses some anxiety...
The Man Who Made Lists by Joshua Kendall
February 24, 2025By the end of that lecture, Roget had concluded that one of the causes of “the...




