Detective fiction revels in the possibilities offered by railway travel, but it also expresses some anxiety...

By the end of that lecture, Roget had concluded that one of the causes of “the...

Nature in the form of searing sunlight and raging storms increasingly blotted out the works of...

There is also something conversational about the way he writes, a straightforwardness, and a beguiling, gentle...

I was told in Prague at midday that I had to be at the Wilson Station...

The Arlington Park of the title is a ‘green, ruminative, inchoate suburb’ with ‘avenues and well-pruned...

David and Eleanor’s story is an unremarkable one. But their ordinary disappointments and frustrations are precisely...

The universe appears to have cheated Rupert Everett. By rights, he belongs to the Edwardian age,...

...essentially, the book remains a story of British upper classes and the author has seemingly trawled...

To be sure, the fifteenth century was one of the most politically unstable periods in English...