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Wednesday 20 August 2008

 

The latest culture as recommended by our staff

Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill

Clemency suggests


Do tell me some more about Devonshire

Jeremy Treglown

13th August, 2008

So I Have Thought of You: The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald by Terence Dooley (editor)

Do tell me some more about Devonshire

Speaking for the silent majority

George Osborne

13th August, 2008

Nixonland by Rick Perlstein

Going through the hoops

Patrick Skene Catling

13th August, 2008

Dreaming Iris by John de Falbe

Highs and lows of a musical career

Rupert Christiansen

13th August, 2008

Handel: The Man and His Music by Jonathan Keates

Once a fashionable monster

Andrew Lambirth

13th August, 2008

The Great Bratby by Maurice Yacowar

Dearly beloved Meg

Jonathan Sumption

13th August, 2008

A Daughter’s Love: Thomas and Margaret More by John Guy

A master at work

Sam Leith

6th August, 2008

Lush Life by Richard Price

Nooks for rooks

P.J. Kavanagh

6th August, 2008

Crow Country by Mark Cocker

Deceit and dilemma

Simon Baker

6th August, 2008

Our Story Begins by Tobias Wolff

Good length delivery

John de Falbe

6th August, 2008

24 for 3 by Jennie Walker

Letters from the Front

M. R. D. Foot

6th August, 2008

1918: A Very British Victory by Peter Hart

Recent crime novels

Andrew Taylor

6th August, 2008

Andrew Taylor reviews a selection of recent crime novels 

The desperate fate of Malcolm Lowry

Allan Massie

6th August, 2008

Allan Massie reflects on Malcolm Lowry

Not tired of this life

Philip Hensher

30th July, 2008

Samuel Johnson: A Biography by Peter Martin

The net result

Sarah Burton

30th July, 2008

Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World by Timothy Brook

The world at bay

Christian House

30th July, 2008

The Great Western Beach: A Memoir of a Cornish Childhood Between the Wars by Emma Smith

Glimpses of past happiness

Jonathan Mirsky

30th July, 2008

My Father’s Roses by Nancy Kohner

Where statesmen and authors met

Blair Worden

30th July, 2008

The Kit-Cat Club: Friends Who Imagined a Nation by Ophelia Field

The invisible muses

Philippa Stockley

30th July, 2008

Hidden in the Shadow of the Master by Ruth Butler

A country of ruins

Robert Stewart

30th July, 2008

Children of the Revolution: The French, 1799-1914 by Robert Gildea

Deluded and abandoned

Anne Applebaum

23rd July, 2008

The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia by Tim Tzouliadis

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