Book Review
Appealing and not-so appealing
If Martin Amis isn’t entertaining you on every page, then what’s the point of him?
In praise of political tittle-tattle
Lady Swire’s new memoir dishes the dirt on the Cameronian Government
The lost world of Rugby League
A new book celebrates 125 years of rugby league but shines a light on a world that the sport has left behind
Artists shaped by war
Practically all the artists in the book are traumatised in one way or another, and all experienced war
Decline, fall and rise again
A masterly account of Britain’s fortunes in the Second World War
Wandering women
The women who always walked alone
Greatest team we never saw
The controversial South African cricket tour of 1970
Intellectual Red Bull
László Földényi’s essays are a collection that will leave you feeling sharp and more cultured, says Tibor Fischer
Pleasures of sex and berries
Hart explains why we’re adapted to the environment we evolved in, rather than the one we inhabit
Anyone for abdication?
A vivid retelling of an infamous constitutional crisis