Open season on Barbara (opens on TLS)
A romantic novelist who became a figure of fun
Reviews from TLS
The headline, standfirst and reviewer from each outlet. Each links to the full review and to the book’s page here.
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Riding the rails (opens on TLS)
Jumping freight trains across turn-of-the-century America
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A radical Rasputin (opens on TLS)
Murder and madness in Victorian Kent
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Sailor, scientist, speculator, scapegoat (opens on TLS)
Vindicating a model naval hero
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Like everybody else (opens on TLS)
The myth of Hispanic exceptionalism
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The art of infamy (opens on TLS)
A novel about literature and conquest
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Lords of the ring (opens on TLS)
The troubling appeal of boxing
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Boy in the bubble (opens on TLS)
The making of a cross-cultural musical classic
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Infernal time machine (opens on TLS)
China Miéville’s anti-colonialist vision
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Substitute life (opens on TLS)
Living in the shadow of a half-brother’s death
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Moving on (opens on TLS)
A novel of Irish emigrants and paternal wounds
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Missing voices (opens on TLS)
The collision between deafness and the hearing world
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Know thyself (opens on TLS)
A memoir of a family in flight from the Nazis
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How to load a gun (opens on TLS)
Romance and vengeance in the Dublin underworld
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Victory lap (opens on TLS)
Reflections on a life devoted to international law
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Electric dreams (opens on TLS)
Searching for connection in a post-government dystopia
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Terminal velocity (opens on TLS)
A wealthy businessman heads to an assisted dying clinic
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Bunker mentality (opens on TLS)
Art, money and doomsday preppers on a simmering Greek island
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One of the happy few? (opens on TLS)
How writing freed Anita Brookner from despair
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Camus contre Camus (opens on TLS)
The trials of a public intellectual
