A phrase like ‘fortress England’ seems to echo down the centuries, and turns up again in This Little World, Nandini Das’s new ...
Lost in the Supermarket - A Working Title I Want to Change by Saul Leslie ...
Some of the most disagreeable people I have encountered in three decades of financial journalism work in private equity. A ...
The Life of Louise Bourgeois by Marie-Laure Bernadac (Translated from French by Lauren Elkin) ...
Born into raffish Polish-Russian gentry in 1870, Vera Gedroits resisted convention from an early age. Passionate and ...
Death of a Democracy by Victor Sebestyen; Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe by Katja Hoyer ...
A Visual History by Thomas W Laqueur ...
David Bentley Hart is an Eastern Orthodox theologian who has made waves in his own sphere through his radical atavism (he refers often to the early Church fathers’ concept of the divine), his sympathy ...
Ted Powell follows the argument set out in two seminal essays about Churchill and the monarchy, by Philip Ziegler and David Cannadine, and breaks little new ground. But Churchill and the Crown is the ...
On Women, Music and Power by Lauren Elkin ...
A great and subtle poet, a haughty and defensive noble, an enigmatic but reckless youth, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, blazed a trail through the reign of Henry VIII only to be executed for treason ...
After the Great Fire in 1666, speculative building became one of London’s main economic activities and, according to Dan Cruickshank, what kept the building trade going was the sex industry. The ...