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October 14, 2014

A Message From Martha by Mark Avery

Reviewed by Terence Jagger This is an important centenary year; on 1 September, 1914, the world’s last Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) died in Cincinnati…

October 13, 2014

The Hermit in the Garden: From Imperial Rome to Ornamental Gnome by Gordon Campbell

Reviewed by Barb Scharf If you were a member of the English aristocracy residing in Shropshire in the Georgian era, late 1700s to early…

October 9, 2014

A Strange Business: Making Art and Money in Nineteenth-Century Britain by James Hamilton

Reviewed by Frances Ambler Mention art and money together and the chances are it’ll conjure up an image of some Saatchi-esque super dealer or…

July 18, 2014

The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman

Reviewed by Terence Jagger This is a famous and fascinating book, and I think anyone interested in the Great War, or the wider question…

July 18, 2014

Over the Ocean by Erica Fischer

Translated by Andrew Brown Reviewed by Jean Morris The media were full of the D-Day commemorations as I read this book – stories of…

July 17, 2014

One Summer: America 1927 by Bill Bryson

Reviewed by Harriet Devine If I were to make a list of things I probably wouldn’t want to read a book about, aeroplanes, cars, baseball…

July 11, 2014

Domestic Manners of the Americans by Frances Trollope

Reviewed by Harriet Devine No author of the present day has been at once so much read, so much admired and so much abused….

July 10, 2014

Hotel Florida: Truth, Love and Death in the Spanish Civil War by Amanda Vaill

Reviewed by Harriet Devine The Spanish Civil War (1936-39), a messy, bloody conflict in which Spanish Republicans fought to save their country from the…

July 10, 2014

The Valley by Richard Benson

Reviewed by Victoria Best The best kind of non-fiction, I think, shows us how supposedly ‘average’ ordinary lives are really quite extraordinary. In the…

Women of the World by Helen McCarthy
July 10, 2014

Women of the World by Helen McCarthy

Reviewed by Victoria Best When I was sitting my A levels back in 1987, my school thought itself very advanced because it gave us…

April 15, 2014

Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses by Helen Rappaport

Reviewed by Harriet Devine On 17 July 1918, four young women walked down twenty-three steps into the cellar of a house in Ekaterinburg. The…

April 8, 2014

The Love-Charm of Bombs by Lara Feigel

Reviewed by Harriet Devine For the past couple of years, I have been fascinated by the events of WW2, and have found myself drawn…

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