Books

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

Insight of a prolix pluralist

Christopher Bray reviews The Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin by Johnny Lyons

He was right all along

Michael Bentley reviews The Englightenment that Failed by Jonathon Israel

Adventures in La-La Land

Simon Callow reviews A Fate Worse than Hollywood by David Ambrose

P is for Plum Pudding

Jonathon Green reviews A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders

Blown fusionism: is a common enemy enough?

Ed West, Small Men on the Wrong Side of History

Picturing Colonial Africa

Alexander Adams reviews Postcards from Africa: Photographs of the Colonial Era, by Christraud M. Geary