Tag Archives: book reviews

The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents by Alex Butterworth | Book review
March 27, 2010

Stuart Christie learns that secret police tactics have [...]

Back from the Brink: The Inside Story of the Tory Resurrection by Peter Snowdon | Book reviews
March 27, 2010

Julian Glover finds the tale of Tory reinvention just [...]

Jonathan Bernstein’s Aerial View of American TV
March 27, 2010

This month on US TV: Timothy Olyphant dispenses [...]

David Coetzee obituary
March 26, 2010

Journalist, campaigner and founder of SouthScan

The journalist David [...]

Amazon’s move into Canada sparks cultural war with booksellers
March 26, 2010

• Online bookseller's plan to open warehouse in [...]

Poster poems: Easter
March 26, 2010

Whether Easter means rebirth, rebellion or just chocolate, [...]

Transatlantic literature, plus Rose Tremain on Trespass
March 26, 2010

How special is the relationship between the literatures of the UK and the US? Because [...]

A nobody’s guide to the Oscars
March 25, 2010

You know you're not going to win. You're [...]

First edition of The Wind in the Willows sells for £32,400
March 25, 2010

An edition of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in [...]

Lost Booker prize shortlist overlooks Iris Murdoch but plumps for Muriel Spark
March 25, 2010

Acclaimed Scottish author, who never won the Booker [...]

Fictional cravings: what are your storybook desires?
March 25, 2010

Reading about food always makes me hungry, but [...]

Treasure trove of British spy novels to go up for auction
March 25, 2010

A portion of the private library of dedicated [...]