7,488 book reviews and counting...

"an excellent suite of essays on transience and remembrance..."

" A Radical Romance is an admirable tribute to a man, a period of rapid change in London, and an unusual marriage..."

"The strengths of the work are stunning..."

"We are reminded too that certain features of British politics are less new-fangled than they may appear...."

"Richard Eaton’s brilliant book stands as an important monument to this almost forgotten world..."

"The candid life story of Princess Margaret’s aide, which has proved a publishing hit, provides insights into the aristocratic system and the real life behind The Crown..."

"This austere, impressive book would not gladden anyone’s Christmas, but I felt edified reading it..."

"“From the stony potato,” Earle’s thought-provoking little volume shows, “life rises up.”..."

"I read each page with relish and gratitude..."

"one part antiquity, one part Renaissance, one part Smash Hits. Erudition, with an erotic frisson..."

"It’s impossible not to be impressed by the scale of the task Moore undertook ..."

"Most of the book reads like a history lecturer on automatic..."

"reconstructs a history, deep and wide, that poses a significant challenge to optimism..."

"The book is sweeping in its scope, charting the history of the Italian Resistance from its birth in 1943 to the Allied liberation of 1945..."

"Watson’s splendid book combines great evocative power (and flashes of sharp humour) with the ethical authority of the best history writing...."

"This complex and exceptional book explores the legacy of the “desk killer”...."

"gently rambling, lightly polemical non-fiction..."

"engaging, informative and illuminating ..."

"Penn is so keen to tell us what happened next that he rarely pauses to address these questions. ..."

"Simon Parkin’s enthralling narrative history tells the story of the secret unit charged with turning the tide in the Battle of the Atlantic...."

"This devastatingly scrupulous account of Jack the Ripper’s victims exposes the misogyny at the heart of the myth..."

"Tehran Children tackles the difficulties of recounting history from the perspective of today’s fluctuating political orthodoxy...."

"Wade’s research is impressive..."

"it is a magnificent achievement..."

"Longerich’s imposing volume (first published in German in 2015) is the third but perhaps not final step in a prodigious project in the prosopography of Nazi power. ..."

"Tinniswood’s history of the antics and aspirations of a bygone age. ..."

"If Forgotten Bastards makes me very queasy, it’s because, 70 years on, everyone is still squaring up to each other...."

"Chang uses a gripping and emotional personal story to draw Western readers into the history of China..."

"Roger Moorhouse’s story of Poland’s resistance is both harrowing and inspiring..."

"Simms is mesmerized by his own reading of Hitler’s ideology..."

"paint(s) a rich portrait of the enduring friendship between four of them...."

"Roderick Floud praises the overlooked contribution of gardening to Britain’s economy..."