The Spectator

The week in books | 12 July 2013

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The latest issue of the Spectator is full to bursting with sparkling and varied book reviews. Here are some extracts from those reviews:

Sam Leith reviews two new books (one by Douglas Hurd and Edward Young, the other by Dick Legend) that, to some extent, debunk the Tory legend of Benjamin Disraeli.

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