Books
A love letter to hard-won wisdom
They paid the bills through the tutorials that trained the next generation
Starving for a good argument
Henry Dimbleby’s new book doesn’t hit the spot
Dark obsessions of the Demon Dog
Love Me Fierce in Danger reads as a book for fans, inured to the World of Ellroy
Bring back plain English
Most literary criticism is don addressing don, in a style designed to exclude ordinary people
Murders for March
A sinister start to the spring
Pains and pleasures of anticipation
The best sort of debut isn’t actually the author’s first book
Empire by way of Europe
A new book places the quest to keep Algeria French squarely at the centre of European integration
England’s fair and pleasant land
It’s not cricket; it’s the murky world of identity
Rich portrait of our island nation
Le Brun has written a study of Britain imagined, Britain as it recently was, and of Britain becoming
A window into the medieval mind
Heaven on Earth captures the extraordinary efflorescence of Gothic architecture in Europe