Book Review

It is a hardened atheist who does not ask a few favours of God as he fixes his bayonet

Mr Heffer has produced a monumental second volume on Henry ‘Chips’ Channon to match his first

Here are three of our most praised writers with new offerings written during one or more lockdowns and that also take in the pandemic in their subject matter

This magnificent one volume history details the tumultuous days of the Indian army in the jungles of Burma

We need heavyweights to separate good from bad

The Genetic Lottery is not the only book published this summer to tackle controversial topics in biology

Tirthankar Roy dismisses both nationalist tropes about evil colonialists and imperial assumptions of benevolent liberal intervention

Little of the Hungarian aristocrats’ world remains, except a few crumbling buildings — and Count Bánffy’s stories

These two books show that it has always been the preserve of the unscrupulous to peddle their wares to the gullible and salacious

Many find theology dusty, but McGrath makes a pitch for it as the centre of our world