Book reviews
Book Review: A Tour of the English Lakes
Sunday, 29 January 2012 - John Martin Robinson admires a book exploring the English Grand Tour of the Lakes through watercolours and landscapes | Read Full Story
Book Review: Georgette Heyer: Biography of a Bestseller
Sunday, 22 January 2012 - Leslie Geddes Brown says this biography could have been a misery memoir | Read Full Story
Book Review: PG Wodehouse: A Life in Letters
Saturday, 21 January 2012 - Letters that reveal the author's plagiaristic tendencies and inability to suffer fools amuse Roderick Easdale | Read Full Story
Book Reviews: Books on Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Sunday, 15 January 2012 - Three books about the life of Pre-Raphaelite Dante Gabriel Rossetti are a fascinating insight into his complex life | Read Full Story
Book Review: Gardening: Wild Flowers
Thursday, 12 January 2012 - Knowledge built over years of fieldwork makes this book useful, as well as striking a chord with the enthusiast | Read Full Story
Book Review: Music in the Landscape
Sunday, 11 December 2011 - A wealth of anecdote and insight make for fascinating reading in this new book on how the British Countryside inspired our greatest composers | Read Full Story
Book review: A Glimpse of Empire
Saturday, 10 December 2011 - Jessica Douglas-Home writes a wonderful memoir evoking memories of empire | Read Full Story
Book review: Room for Diplomacy: Britain’s Diplomatic Buildings 1800-2000
Saturday, 19 November 2011 - Gavin Stamp welcomes a much-overdue look at British embassies abroad, how they were built and who they were built by | Read Full Story
Book reviews: Books on a war theme
Sunday, 13 November 2011 - Lt-Gen Sir Barney White-Spunner recommends some new books on a theme of war | Read Full Story
Book review: Oliver Messel: In the Theatre of Design
Saturday, 05 November 2011 - Alan Powers admires the gorgeously produced study of the oeuvre of the celebrated 20th century designer Oliver Messel | Read Full Story
