Books

Know your Catalan onions

Gerald Frost reviews Nourishing the Nation: Food as National Identity by Venetia Johannes

There’s no need to shout

Patrick West reviews You’re Not Listening by Kate Murphy

A plague of words

Who will write the Great Novel of the Coronavirus?

The implied fascist

Roland Elliott Brown reviews How to be a Fascist by Michela Murgia

True Feminism has Never Been Tried, Comrade

Alexander Adams reviews Women Can’t Paint by Helen Gørrill

Eat more meat!

Jamie Blackett discovers the more meat the better in Charlie Spedding’s book: Stop Feeding Us Lies

West British landscapes

Andrew McKinley reviews Robert Lynch’s ‘The Partition of Ireland 1918-1925’

American psychos

Tibor Fischer review’s Gimson’s Presidents: Brief Lives from Washington to Trump by Andrew Gimson

Captain courageous

Jamie Blackett reviews Vintage Roger: Letters from the PoW years by Roger Mortimer

Wandsworth’s white-collar clubmen

Alexander Larman reviews A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner by Chris Atkins