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In the Kitchen by Monica Ali
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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...
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...




