Kit de Waal’s second novel, The Trick to Time, begins with Mona, a sixty-year-old Irish immigrant, standing by her window in the middle of the night. She notices a man in the building across from her ...
As with William Dalrymple’s White Mughals, with which it invites comparisons, Ferdinand Mount’s new book, The Tears of the Rajas, concerns the early days of the British in India. It covers much of the ...
Edward III has had a hard time of it from historians and biographers. At the beginning of this book, Ian Mortimer rightly points out the often extreme prejudice of Victorian historians against him, ...
The wider circumpolar region is rich in oil, gas, metals and minerals, while thawing ice has increased the navigability of ...
Baby-making has become ‘a capitalist’s wet dream’, writes journalist Alev Scott in Cash Cow. Although the subject has been much explored by scholars, Scott comes at it a little differently – initially ...
The General Strike of 1926 by Jonathan Schneer; The Edge of Revolution: The General Strike That Shook Britain by David ...
Venice and the Jews by Alexander Lee ...
The artist Chaim Soutine was obsessed with Rembrandt’s painting of a flayed and headless ox. After managing at the age of ...
Shame Has to Change Sides by Gisèle Pelicot with Judith Perrignon (Translated from French by Natasha Lehrer & Ruth Diver) ...
British traveller Thomas Bowdich was dazzled when he visited Kumasi, the capital of the West African kingdom of Asante, in ...
Who was Charles de Gaulle? Stop the clock in 1939 and he was an eccentric army officer. Stop it in July 1940, after he had flown to London, and he was claiming to represent France against the Vichy ...
In A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain Owen Hatherley cast his exhilaratingly miserabilist eye over the Blair era’s ‘regeneration’ of cities such as Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham and Cardiff ...
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